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IOR/L/PS/12/2897
- Record Id:
- 040-000557933
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000557879
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0001b8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055731501.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/12/2897
- Title:
- Coll 17/35 ‘Iraq. Iraq – Saudi Relations. Demarcation of Frontier.’
- Scope & Content:
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The file contains papers mainly relating to the proposed demarcation of the frontier between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, including the issue of the western termination point of the Saudi-Iraq frontier, at the meeting-point of Saudi, Iraqi and Transjordan territory.
The papers largely consist of correspondence between the following:
- HM Ambassador to Iraq (Maurice Peterson, Sir Basil Newton) and the Foreign Office (including the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: Viscount Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood).
- The Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia and the Foreign Minister of Iraq.
- The India Office and the Foreign Office.
The file also includes a Foreign Office memorandum entitled ‘The Frontiers between Transjordan and Nejd and Transjordan and the Hejaz’, which includes a map (see IOR/L/PS/12/2897, f 29).
The file includes a divider, which gives lists of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000554996
037-000557879
040-000557933 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/12 : Departmental Papers: Political (External) Files and Collections
IOR/L/PS/12/2845-2902 : Political (External) Collection 17: Iraq
IOR/L/PS/12/2897 : Coll 17/35 ‘Iraq. Iraq – Saudi Relations. Demarcation of Frontier.’ - Contains:
- IOR/L/PS/12/2897, f 29 : ‘Al Jauf’
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/PS/12/2897 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0012]/036-000554996[0018]/037-000557879[0054]/040-000557933
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (53 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0001b8
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1937
- End Date:
- 1940
- Date Range:
- 28 May 1937-5 Oct 1940
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 56; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-55; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
- Former External References:
- Coll 17/35
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)