Chart showing pearl banks along the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf north of Ras Tanurah
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Chart that shows the location of pearl banks along the 'Arabian' shore of the Persian Gulf north of Ras Tanura. In addition to pearl banks, the chart also lists names of some coastal settlements and islands.
File 6-D/5 Foreign Interests: Persian Consul's Visit to Gwadar
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This file contains correspondence concerning a visit to Gwadur made by A H Meftah, the Persian Vice-Consul in Quetta without permission from the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Sa'id bin Taymur Al Bu Sa'id. The correspondence in the file is mainly between officials at the British Agency in Gwadur, th...
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning a complaint made by the Government of Iran of that Britain was 'intriguing' with Persian subjects in Baluchistan, the arrest of a British Indian subject by the Iranian Police and rumours of arms smuggling into Persian Baluchi...
File 6/13 Foreign Interests: Seizure of Arab Dhows by Persians
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This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning reports of Iranian Government customs vessels 'interfering' with a number of vessels from Oman and Kuwait. In addition to correspondence that discusses these specific instances, the file also contains correspondence regarding...
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding radio broadcasts from the USSR in the Near and Middle East. The correspondence in the file consists of a letter sent by the Foreign Office to a number of British diplomatic officials around the Middle East and responses to i...
This file contains copies of anti-Communist publications and briefings that were produced by the Foreign Office and sent to British diplomatic posts throughout the Middle East including the Political Agency and Consulate in Muscat. It contains copies of the following documents: 'Foundations of S...
This file contains correspondence regarding the Saudi-Yemen War of 1934 covering its outbreak, key developments and its cessation with the Taif Treaty. The majority of this correspondence consists of updates on the war that were sent from the British Legation in Jeddah to Britain's various Polit...
File 6/28 Foreign Interests: Sa'udi Arabian Boundary
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding negotiations between Britain and Saudi Arabia in order to determine the Eastern and Southern borders of Saudi Arabia. Also discussed in detail are the broader political situation in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia's influence in the re...
This file contains correspondence between officials at the British Consulate in Muscat, the Political Residency in Bahrain and the Foreign Office regarding the delineation of the border between Saudi Arabia and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman.
This file contains correspondence between officials at the British Consulate in Muscat, the Political Residency in Bahrain and the Foreign Office regarding the delineation of the border between Saudi Arabia and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman.