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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Shat-el-Arab, Middle East, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/18/B112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B112
Title:
Note on the Turkish Fort at Fao on the Shat-el-Arab. (With Sketch Map of the Shat-el-Arab.) 1883 to 1897.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum of the events and correspondence relating to the Turkish construction of a fort at Fao on the Shat-el-Arab. The memorandum reproduces a number of representations made by the British Government both directly to the Turkish Porte and through the Persian Government, objecting to the con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Jun 1897
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/169
Title:
File 252/1910 Pt 2 Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; buoyage of Shatt al-Arab
Scope & Content:
This volume contains letters, reports and memoranda concerning the lighting and buoyage of the Shatt al-Arab. Correspondence discusses the poor state of the buoys and need for repainting; a re-survey of the Shatt al-Arab in order the prevent the Germans from gaining influence. Also discussed is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911
Extent:
1 volume (327 folios)