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1. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28-29

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28-29
Title:
Two reports on Cyprus
Scope & Content:
Two reports on Cyprus. The first (IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28) is of a military nature and was produced in 1878, when Britain received Cyprus as a Protectorate from the Ottoman Empire. The second report (IOR/L/MIL/17/16/29), dated 1936, assesses the island’s suitability for settlement by officers of the I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1878-1936
Extent:
2 volumes (102 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/2
Title:
Gazetteer of Arabia
Scope & Content:
An alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of sev...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

3 volumes (1,100 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41
Title:
A Handbook of Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
This file consists of six volumes containing intelligence on Mesopotamia. These volumes are: Volume I: General (August 1916); Volume I: General (Second Edition, November 1918); Volume II: Irak [Iraq], The Lower Kārūn, and Luristan (May 1917); Volume III: Central Mesopotamia with Souther Kurdista...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, Kurdish, Persian, and Syriac
Date Range:
1916-1918
Extent:

6 volumes (1329 folios)

4. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/11
Title:
Who's Who in Persia
Scope & Content:
The volumes consist of Who's Who in Persia volumes I-IV, compiled by the General Staff, India. These are biographical dictionaries of individuals, families, and tribes connected with particular regions in Persia. A further four volumes contain corrections and additions for each of the previous vo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923-1924
Extent:

8 volumes (549 folios)

5. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/10
Title:
Military report on S. W. Persia, Volumes I to V
Scope & Content:
The volumes consist of five military reports concerning regions of S W Persia, with nine accompanying maps. Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India. Printed at the Government Monotype Press, 1909-12. The volumes are as follows: I: Bakhtiari Garmsir [Bakhtīā...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1912
Extent:

5 volumes (281 folios)

6. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/3, p 374A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/3, p 374A
Title:
Baghdad
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Plan of Baghdad showing principal roads, old city walls, the telegraph, horse tramway and railway lines with terminus, the location of government and public buildings including markets, theatres, liquor shops and brothels. Public buildings numbered and lettered for referen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:
1 map

7. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/12/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/12/5
Title:
Index and corrections to Routes in Persia Volume III, Part I
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918-1919
Extent:
2 volumes (86 folios)

8. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/12
Title:
Routes in Persia, Volumes I to IV, with indexes and corrections
Scope & Content:
The volumes are Government of India official publications, consisting of four volumes of Routes in Persia divided into six parts, with five further volumes of indexes and corrections, and seven maps.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1928
Extent:

11 volumes (1936 folios)

9. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/1, p 365

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/1, p 365
Title:
Map 3. Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Ordnance Survey, 1916. Distinctive Features: General map of Mesopotamia [Iraq] showing in green the approximate areas for proposed irrigation scheme. Shows rivers, railway lines with Turco-Persian boundary indicated by dash-dot line. Includes table of reference at lower left of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 map

10. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/3, p 527

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/3, p 527
Title:
City of Baghdad
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Plan of Baghdad issued by the Admiralty War Staff showing principal roads, outline of the old city walls, the telegraph, horse tramway and railway lines with terminus and camel loading bank; the government and public buildings including police post, barracks and possible b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:
1 map