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IOR/L/MIL/17/15/23
- Record Id:
- 040-000799035
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000799011
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00013d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100059345071.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/23
- Title:
- Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)
- Scope & Content:
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Military report compiled by Captain LS Fortescue of the General Staff of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force and printed in Calcutta at the Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1922.
The volume begins with a statement defining the geographical area covered by the report. The report is divided into ten chapters, plus appendices, each concerning a different subject, as follows:
- Chapter 1: History
- Chapter 2: Geography
- Chapter 3: Climate, Water, Medical and Aviation
- Chapter 4: Ethnography
- Chapter 5: Administration (including a table of provinces with administrative details (folios 123-30)
- Chapter 6: Armed Forces of the Persian Government
- Chapter 7: Economic Resources
- Chapter 8: Tribes
- Chapter 9: Personalities
- Chapter 10: Communications
- Appendices: Glossary of terms; Weights, measures and coinage; Bibliography; Historical sketch (Chapter 1) continued from June 1920 to the end of 1921
At the back of the volume (folio 302) is a map to illustrate the report.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000256868
036-000788810
037-000799011
038-000799012
040-000799035 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/MIL : Records of the Military Department
IOR/L/MIL/17 : Military Department Library
IOR/L/MIL/17/15 : Iran, Iraq, Persian Gulf
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/1-40 : Iran
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/23 : Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral) - Contains:
- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/23, f 302 : Map to illustrate the Military Report on Tehran and adjacent provinces in N. W. Persia
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- 032-000256868[0017]/036-000788810[0015]/037-000799011[0001]/038-000799012[0023]/040-000799035
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/MIL
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume (301 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00013d
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1922
- End Date:
- 1922
- Date Range:
- 1922
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 303; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
- Former External References:
- OP 37
- Arrangement:
- There is a contents page (folio 5) and list of illustrations (folio 6) at the front of the volume and an index at the back (folios 270-300). All refer to the volume's original pagination. The index also includes map references of all places marked on the map.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)