'Military Report on Iraq (Area 6 Lower Euphrates)'

Content

This volume was compiled as one of ten military reports to aid British military operations in Iraq published by the General Staff of British Forces in Iraq. It covers Area 6, or Lower Euphrates and contains chapters that cover the history, geography, climate, ethnography, natural resources, as well as the tribal makeup of region. The final chapters are devoted to important personalities, and communications infrastructure.

The volume is particularly detailed given that the area it covers was the site of a major anti-British insurrection in 1920. As such it is particularly detailed on the political and demographic makeup of the region and its people.

Extent and format

One Volume (421 pages)

It is grouped into

'Supplementary Map to Area No. 6 Showing Tribal Dispositions Round the Hammar Lake'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/44, f 221

'Tribal and Communications Map of Area 6'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/44, f 222

'Key Map to Boundaries of Military Report Areas in Mesopotamia'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/44, f 223

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 224; 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 volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/MIL/17/15/44

History of this record

Date(s)

1923 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Military intelligenceDemographic statisticsIndigenous populations

Places

Iraq

People & organisations

British Forces in Iraq

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'Military Report on Iraq (Area 6 Lower Euphrates)', British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/MIL/17/15/44, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000164> [accessed 6 October 2024]

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