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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Turkey, Middle East, Asia

11. IOR/L/PS/12/327

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/327
Title:
PZ 376/1940 'Turkey: Earthquake in Turkey, 1939.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the 1939 Turkish earthquake. It largely consists of: copies of letters from the Under Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department, to the Counsellor, British Embassy, Angora [Ankara], Turkey, forwarding enclosed correspondence reg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Jan 1940-14 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/355

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/355
Title:
PZ 1448/1940 'Sino-Japanese dispute: visit of Chinese Moslem delegation to Turkey and Afghanistan'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in this file relates to the expected visit of two Chinese Muslims to Afghanistan following their stay in Angora. The upcoming event is highlighted in a letter from Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen (HM Ambassador to Turkey) to Viscount Halifax (Secretary of State for Foreign...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1940-28 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/12/1012

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1012
Title:
Ext 3463/45 ‘American invitation to Turkish Military Officers & Prince Peter of Greece to visit India, China & Burma.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains notes, telegrams, and letters, regarding: the invitation by General Ritter and General Giles, of the United States of America, to five Turkish Army officers, including the Deputy Chief of Staff and the Director of Military Training, and Prince Peter of Greece, to pay a short vi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1945-6 Oct 1945
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/12/3463

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3463
Title:
Coll 28/57 ‘Persia. Perso-Turkish relations; Treaty of Friendship & Security’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning relations between Persia [Iran] and Turkey. Subjects covered include: the signing of treaties of friendship and neutrality between the two nations in 1932; the proposed visit of the Shah of Persia [Reza Shah Pahlavi] to Angora [Ankara] in 1934; the visit of a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Dec 1932-21 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 file (77 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/12/3477

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3477
Title:
Coll 28/73 ‘Persia. Relations with Turkey. Visit of the Shah to Angora.’
Scope & Content:
Reports from HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare, and the British Ambassador in Turkey, Percy Lyham Loraine, along with newspaper cuttings from The Times, The Near East and India and The Evening Standard, reporting on the Shah of Persia’s [Reza ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Jun 1934-4 Sep 1934
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/12/3480, f 198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3480, f 198
Title:
Sketch Map of the Persia-Iraq Frontier
Scope & Content:
Sketch map indicating the international boundaries between Iraq, Persia [Iran], Turkey, and Azerbaijan. The boundaries are shown as red lines, with country names annotated in red ink. Major settlements are indicated in English in black ink. Important railways and rivers are also indicated in bla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1927?
Extent:
1 map

17. IOR/L/PS/18/B133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B133
Title:
Memorandum respecting Koweit
Scope & Content:
This is a confidential memorandum, printed for the use of the Foreign Office on 30 October 1901, and authored by Robert Venables Vernon Harcourt, dated 29 Oct 1901. The memorandum primarily focuses on the position of Koweit [Kuwait] in regards to Turkey (Ottoman Empire) from 1871 onwards. In the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1901
Extent:

1 file (11 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/18/B141

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B141
Title:
Persian Gulf. Turkish claims on the Arabian coast
Scope & Content:
Memorandum possibly prepared by C G Campbell, 22 January 1903. The document is a recent historical overview of Turkish claims to the Arabian (southern) coast of the Persian Gulf, with particular focus on Qatar (referred to as El Katr throughout), Odeid [al-‘Udaid], and the Trucial Coast. There ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1903
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/18/B181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B181
Title:
British relations with Turkey in the Persian Gulf. Memorandum on Lieutenant-Colonel Cox's telegram reports in Government of India's telegram of 1 December 1910.
Scope & Content:
This memorandum concerns British relations with Turkey in the Persian Gulf and was written by Frederic Arthur Hirtzel in December 1910. The immediate question it addresses is 'the desirability of concluding a treaty with a Sheikh or Sheikhs of the El Katr [Qatar] peninsula as a bulwark against T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1910
Extent:
5 folios

20. IOR/L/PS/18/B221

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B221
Title:
'Germany and the Middle East'
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, by Joseph Austen Chamberlain, contains a report of a lecture 'Germany and the Middle East', by Dr Paul Rohrbach given at the Hamberg Volksheim which was printed in Hamburger Fremdenblatt, 3 December 1915. The report discusses Rohrbach's opinions on the current situatio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1915
Extent:

1 folio