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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [403r] (808/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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TEN HISTORICAL SITES
6 37
which looked both west over the polo ground and east over the race
course. The palace is flanked by the barracks of the Turkish guard on the
north and rambling servants’ quarters on the south.
Farther south is another caliphal palace, built less luxuriously, with
the ruins of a great arch known as ‘the camel’. The large octagonal
enclosure called Qadisiya on the southernmost outskirts of old Samarra
has not yet been excavated and its purpose is not properly known, though
Arab geographers connect it with the manufacture of glass, some traces of
which have been found.
North of the Bait al Khalifa is the palace of Mutawakkil and a second
great mosque, called Abu Dulaf; it too has a spiral minaret, though smaller
and more ruined than the Malwiya. Between Abu Dulaf and modern
Samarra, along an avenue 80 feet broad, there were residential districts
containing mansions, shops, and a prison, marked by its blank wall.
Still standing are the lower courses of the walls of many houses which had
both summer and winter apartments or else harem and diwan, and were
generally panelled in Assyrian style with slabs of carved stone. Seen from
the air the layout is regular and carefully planned. Near the main avenue
there is the ruined mound of another grand-stand in the centre of a race
course which curved in four times towards it.
The Museum of Islamic Art at Baghdad contains many ornaments,
carvings, and fine objects from the excavations at Samarra.
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence