Map of area surrounding Tabriz with lines given to reflect the 4th proposal on the Turkish-Iraqi border. A key is given: Red line in crayon – Sevres Treaty Boundary; blue line in crayon – fourth proposal; Green line in crayon – Turco-Persian frontier 1914. Also given is line of incorrect Mosul vi...
Correspondence about Mosul and still more about oil (mainly with Walter Long) 1922-23.
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The file consists of correspondence between Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs George Curzon and other personalities concerning the substance of negotiations and treaties relating to the Mosul vilayet and related issues of oil resources. There are a total of sixteen letters between Curzon an...
Notebook of George Nathaniel Curzon's Travels through Persia
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This volume is a bound notebook with handwritten notes and sketches in pencil by George Nathaniel Curzon. The notes mostly relate to Curzon's travels through Persia in 1889-90. The notebook begins with general notes; later folios resemble diary entries, with date headings included from folio 36 ...
Notebook of George Nathaniel Curzon's travels through Persia
Scope & Content:
This volume is a bound notebook with handwritten notes in pencil by George Nathaniel Curzon. The notes, which follow on from an earlier notebook, Mss Eur F112/365, relate to Curzon's travels through Persia in 1889-90. The notes cover the period 25 November 1889 to 2 January 1890 and particularly ...
Notes of a journey from Kasreen to Hamadan across the Karaghan country. By J. D. Rees
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The volume consists of the printed notes taken by John David Rees, Under-Secretary to the Government of Madras, during his journey between Kasveen [Qazvin] and Hamadan, Persia [Iran]. The notes were printed by the Government Press at Madras [Chennai], in October 1885. The volume contains a map ...
Printed map showing John David Rees’s route between Kasveen [Qazvin] to Hamadan, Persia [Iran]. Marked in red is the route taken by the author. The map was projected and plotted by W Starr, Civil Assistant, and detailed and printed by A Humphreys. The map was produced by the Central Survey Offi...
‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’
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This volume is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1886 edition). It was compiled for political and military reference by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, Assistant Quarter Master General, in 1871, and brought up to 31 July 1885 by the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Mast...
This black and white print of a drawing shows a view of Akdarband, a pass in the Tabut-Kah subdivision of Eastern Khurasan [Khorāsān], Persia [Iran], situated in the Mudaran mountains on the southernmost road from Mashhad to Sarakhs. The pass guarded both the mountain pass and the passage of the...
This black and white print of a plan shows Ak-Kala, a fort on the south side of the river Gurgan in Astarabad, Persia [Iran], 10.5 miles (16.9 kilometres) from the city of Astarabad [Gorgan], and about 35 miles (56.33 kilometres) from the Atrak river. The plan indicates the twelve roomed doubl...
‘ROUGH SKETCH OF ASTARÁBÁD, FROM AN EYE-SKETCH BY LT.-COL. BERESFORD LOVETT, R. E., 1881.’
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This black and white printed sketch map of the city of Astarabad [Gorgan] in Persia [Iran] shows the following features: the crenelated walls of the city; the garden of Abbas Khan; government buildings, the telegraph office, and the magazine; the Russian consulate; the British consulate; the Mas...
