'DESCRIPTION OF ARABIA MADE FROM PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS AND INFORMATION COLLECTED ON THE SPOT BY CARSTEN NIEBUHR.'
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An official publication containing a translation of a text entitled ‘Description of Arabia made from Personal Observations and Information Collected on the Spot by Carsten Niebuhr’. The original text by Niebuhr, in German, was published in Amsterdam and Utrecht in 1774. This translation was ca...
Précis of information obtained by the British mission to Abyssinia (March to June 1897). By Lt-Col F R Wingate, RA, Director of Military Intelligence, Egyptian Army, and Cpt Count Gleichen, Staff Captain, Intelligence Division, War Office [London: War Office, 1898]
The volume consists of a military report on Arabia. It was published in 1904 and prepared by the General Staff, War Office. It is divided into eight chapters by the following locations: ‘General Description of Arabia Proper.’ The region of Syria [Greater Syria] The Hejaz The Yemen Nejd [Najd] El...
The map sheet is one of two included in IOR/L/PS/20/E56. The map shows the regions of Arabia, Persia [Iran], Egypt, Cyprus, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. It also shows the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Caspian Sea. Included is an inset of Koweit [Kuwait] and th...
The map sheet is one of three included in IOR/L/PS/20/E56. The map shows parts of the Levant region. It also shows the Mediterranean Sea, the Dead Sea [also referred to as Bahr-Lut], the Sea of Galilee [also referred to as Bahr Tubariyeh] and an inset of Jerusalem and the surrounding country (sc...