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IOR/L/PS/10/623
- Record Id:
- 040-000545686
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000206
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100043084885.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/623
- Title:
- File 3579/1916 'Turkey: the future of Constantinople'
- Scope & Content:
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The volume contains papers regarding the future of Constantinople [Instanbul]. It includes: India Office minute papers; copies of correspondence between the Foreign Office and Sir George Buchanan, HM Ambassador at Petrograd [St Petersburg], and other British diplomats; draft telegrams from the Secretary of State for India addressed to the Viceroy of India; correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office; and other papers. Some of the correspondence is in French.
Issues discussed in the papers include: whether the Constantinople Agreement, concluded between the British, French and Russian governments in March 1915 (under the terms of which Constantinople and the Straits of the Dardanelles would be annexed to the Russian Empire), should be made public; the possible effect upon Muslims in India of the announcement of the agreement; and the question of the re-conversion of the St Sophia [Hagia Sophia] mosque in Constantinople into a Christian church.
The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- Europeana Collections 1914-1918
India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000545686 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/623 : File 3579/1916 'Turkey: the future of Constantinople' - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0625]/040-000545686
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (259 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000206
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1916
- End Date:
- 1919
- Date Range:
- 5 Sep 1916-27 Mar 1919
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 259; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The front and back covers, along with the two leading and two ending flyleaves have not been foliated.
- Former External References:
- P 3579/1916
- Arrangement:
-
The subject 3579 (Turkey: the future of Constantinople) consists of one volume, IOR/L/PS/10/623.
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Exhibitions:
- World War One, (online), 29 January 2014-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Memorandum of the strategic importance of Constantinople to the British Empire -- Memorandum on the future of Constantinople. Exhibited: World War One, (online), 29 January 2014-.