This sketch map shows Sur and the surrounding area in Oman. Areas including Maqrimatain, Aiqa, Jabal Eed and Balad As Sur are indicated. The map also shows: the areas occupied by the four sections of the Jenebeh tribe – the Arama, the the Ghialin, the Fuwaris, and the Makhana – within Maqrimatai...
File 4640/1928 Pt 4 ‘MUSCAT: FUTURE POLICY IN. Tariffs.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to British policy in Muscat. It includes some papers regarding the situation at Sur; however most of the volume concerns the financial situation of the Muscat state, mainly the proposal to increase state revenues by removing the limitation on the power of the...
This sketch map shows the Persian Gulf, and the surrounding land. Place names are given, borders are indicated by dashed lines, and the map includes a key indicating how the following features are represented on the map: stopping places of Imperial Airways; the fast mail service by sea; the slow...
This file contains papers relating to proposed increases in the rates of import duty charged by the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. It includes papers concerning: The decision of the British Government that, instead of seeking to amend the Commercial Treaty of 1891 between Muscat and the United ...
File 5301/1928 'Persia: Anglo-Persian Slavery Convention. Slavery in the Persian Gulf'
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This volume contains correspondence between British officials concerning agreements between the British and Persian governments related to the suppression of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf. Much of the correspondence is between officials at the Foreign Office, the India Office and the Briti...
File 6391/1928 'Persia and the Persian Gulf: method of counteracting Soviet activities on Persia and the Persian Gulf'
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The file contains the subject 'Method of Counteracting Soviet Activities in Persia and the Persian Gulf'. The papers cover Russian propaganda in Persia, Soviet commercial activities in southern Persia and in the Persian Gulf, and Bolshevik activities in Abadan and Mohammerah [Khorramshahr]. Th...
The volume contains the subject 'Nejd-Transjordanian Raid Claims'. The papers cover: investigations into raids into Trans-Jordan in 1930-31, including the looting of seventy camels; the situation on the Nejd-Transjordanian border; and a note on policy for the control of the Trans-Jordan desert...
PZ 53/31 'Disposal of Rebel Leaders - Ibn Mashur.'
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The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the case of Farhan ibn Mashur, who had committed various acts of rebellion against Ibn Saud. At the conference on HMS Lupin in February 1930 (the Lupin Conference) the King of Iraq (Faisal I) had given a...
PZ 63/31 'Arabia: Settlement of Iraq-Hejaz Raid Claims'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to raid claims issuing between Iraq and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Najd. The discussion in the volume relates to the negotiations of compensation, final agreement and arrangements for payment and distributio...
PZ 320/31 'Persia: closing of the Soviet Consulate at Seistan.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, printed correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the closure of the Soviet consulate at Seistan [Sīstān va Balūchestān]. The discussion in the volume relates to the impact of the closure on Soviet support for communists in India, the departure ...