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IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28
- Record Id:
- 040-000799189
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000799157
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x0001ed
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100044522902.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28
- Title:
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‘Cyprus.’
- Scope & Content:
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Report compiled by Captain Albany Robert Savile of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General’s Department, Horse Guards. The report was published and printed in London under the superintendence of HM’s Stationery Office in 1878. The report contains fourteen chapters, labelled I to XIV, as follows:
- I: a history of Cyprus, from ancient times to the occuption of the island by Britain in 1878
- II: geography and topography
- III: towns, villages, and antiquities
- IV: communications (inland, maritime, and telegraphic)
- V: coast, harbours
- VI: climate
- VII: natural history
- VIII: agricultural production
- IX: geology and mineralogy
- X: population and inhabitants, including their character, language, religion and education
- XI: internal administration (civil, ecclesiastical, military)
- XII: manufacture and industry
- XIII: trade and revenue
- XIV: currency, weights and measures, list of authorities on Cyprus, cartography of Cyprus
The volume includes a sketch map of Cyprus at the rear (f 91).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000256868
036-000788810
037-000799157
038-000799188
040-000799189 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/MIL : Records of the Military Department
IOR/L/MIL/17 : Military Department Library
IOR/L/MIL/17/16 : Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28-29 : Two reports on Cyprus
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28 : ‘Cyprus.’ - Contains:
- IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28, f 91 : ‘Sketch map of Cyprus’
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000256868[0017]/036-000788810[0016]/037-000799157[0004]/038-000799188[0001]/040-000799189
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/MIL
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume (91 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x0001ed
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1878
- End Date:
- 1878
- Date Range:
- 1878
- 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 92; 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:
- (Wt. B 864.)
40185/327 - Arrangement:
- A content page at the front of the volume (ff 4-5), and an alphabetically arranged index at the rear (ff 87-89) both refer to the volume’s original printed pagination sequence.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)