‘Rough sketch of Northern Section of Perso-Baluch Frontier’
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Sketch map illustration the northern frontier between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan]. The map is marked with two lines: a blue line, actually drawn in black and indicating the border as determined by the Holdich Agreement, and a red line, being the approximate li...
Map indicating the present and proposed frontier line (drawn as dot-dashed and dashed lines respectively) between Turkey and Persia [Iran], south of Mount Ararat. Also indicated on the map are: Mount Ararat, Lesser Ararat, the towns of Bayazid [Doğubayazıt] in Turkey, and Mākū and Kelissa Kendi ...
Map of Mirjáwa [Mīrjāveh] and surroundings. The map indicates: hydrology; cultivated areas; irrigation channels and surface water tank; the positions of the old and new British posts; the position of the ruins of the village of Mirjáwa. The map is signed by Colonel Arthur Henry McMahon, British ...
‘Sketch-map of the Perso-Baluchistan frontier north & south of Mirjawa.’
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Sketch map indicating: the frontiers between Persia [Iran], British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan] and Afghanistan (dotted/dashed lines); roads and railways; settlements. The map is referred to in a draft letter written by George Henry Garstin Anderson of the India Office, immediately prec...
Copy of a map, referred to in an accompanying a letter written by Colonel Arthur Henry McMahon, British Commissioner, Seistan [Sīstān] Arbitration Commission, dated 5 November 1904 (ff 236-241). The letter refers to the boundary between Persia [Iran] and Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan] aro...
Copy of a sketch map of the Kuhgalu [Kohgiluyeh] region of southern Iran, prepared by Captain A H Parvis and SOI [Staff Officer level 1?] R Todd, in May to June 1945. The map accompanies a report of a horseback tour of the region, also prepared by Parvis, in the enclosing file (ff 8-28). The map...
Secret map, marked ‘Map No. 2’ in the top right corner, showing the frontier region between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan]. The map indicates: hydrology, including main and minor watersheds as red lines; spot heights, indicated in feet; settlements; a railway lin...
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...
Map of Persia indicating the extent of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company concession
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The map indicates the territory of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s concession in Persia [Iran] until 31 December 1938, south of a line drawn on the map which is labelled the ‘violet line’. The map is referred to in article 2 of the oil accompanying concession text (f 131). Also indicated on the m...
Map of the frontier region between Persia, Afghānistān and Balūchistān
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A map is comprised of three separate Survey of India sheets stuck together, and covering the frontier region between Persia [Iran], British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan] and Afghanistan, around the town of Mirjāwā [Mīrjāveh]. The bottom left quarter of the map is a blank sheet. The map i...