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IOR/L/PS/20/202
- Record Id:
- 040-000565491
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000564257
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x000080
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023628182.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/20/202
- Title:
- Notes of a journey through Kurdistan in the winter of 1881-82.
- Scope & Content:
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By Montagu Gilbert Gerard, Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 1st Central India Horse, published in Calcutta by the Quarter Master General's Department.
The notes consist of diary entries for the period 15 November 1881 to 16 April 1882, documenting each stage of Captain Gerard's journey through Iraq and Persia. Each entry contains information about the towns and villages he visited, including longitude and latitude co-ordinates, geographical information about the landscape, physical descriptions of the places, political information about the ruler of both the place and its surrounding area and their allegiences, and travel advice for others intending to journey through the Kurdistan region. Also discussed in the entries are customs and quarantine dues paid en-route and bazaars visited, including the type of goods available and the countries those goods were from.
The principle places travelled through include Zobeir [Az-Zubayr], Busreh [Basra], Baghdad, Hillah [Al-Ḥillah], Kifri, Kerkuk [Kirkūk], Mosul [Al-Mawṣil], Miandab [Mīāndoāb], Tabriz, Tasuj [Tasūj], Urmiah [Urmia], Bokan [Bukan], Sakuz [Saqqez], Banah [Baneh], Pengwen [Penjwen], Sulimania [Sulaymaniyah], Murivan [Marivan], Kirmanshah [Kermanshah], Kasr-i-Shirin [Qasr-e-Shirin], Khanikin [Khanaqin] and Bakuba [Baqubah].
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000564257
037-000565294
040-000565491 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/20 : Political and Secret Department Library
IOR/L/PS/20/1-289C : Political and Secret Department Library: Works received later, through official channels, plus miscellaneous items
IOR/L/PS/20/202 : Notes of a journey through Kurdistan in the winter of 1881-82. - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0020]/036-000564257[0009]/037-000565294[0178]/040-000565491
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (28 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x000080
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1883
- End Date:
- 1883
- Date Range:
- 1883
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: The file has been foliated from cover to cover using a pencil number enclosed in a circle located in the top right hand corner of the recto of each folio.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)