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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [803] (958/1782)
The record is made up of 2 volumes (1624 pages). It was created in 1915. 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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Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, despatched his assistant, Major Grant, in H.M.S.
'^Magpie " to Dohah, where the state o£ matters was found to be as de
scribed ; the Shaikh assigned as a. reason for his submission to the Turks
that he lived on the mainland and that the Turks were a land
power, also that the British Government had failed to do his subjects
justice in a certain case of piracy. Meanwhile Colonel Pelly, with a
view to ascertaining" whether the Turkish proceedings at Dohah had been
authorised by the Turkish Government, telegraphed to Colonel Herbert,
the British Resident at Baghdad, and was informed in reply that the
Wali of Baghdad professed not to know whether Turkish flags had
been sent to Qatar or not, but claimed that Qatar was not covered by a
previous Turkish assurance that there should be no interference with
Bahrain. Tn August, the Turks having meanwhile taken possession of
the Hasa Oasis, Qatar became a base for hordes of Bedouins who
began to harass the Ottoman troops from the southward, and two or
three months later Sa'ud the Wahhabi himself retired to Qatar with
a large Bedouin following who insisted that the settled inhabitants, on
pain of having their property raided, should furnish them with supplies ;
during this crisis a warning was sent by the
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
to British
Indian subjects in Qatar, probably to the effect that, if they remained,
it must be at their own risk. In January 187-2 a Turkish Commodore,
accompanied by 'Abdullah-bin-Subah, Shaikh of Kuwait, visited Dohah
with the " Assur " and another Turkish steamer, from which, much to
the disgust of the Shaikh and the inhabitants, a detachment of 100
Turkish troops and a field gun were landed ; this garrison having
established themselves in a fort of the Al Musallam, the Turkish occupa
tion of Dohah was complete. The measures described seem to have been
taken under the orders of Mid-hat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
,—who himself visited Hasa
at the end of 1871, in response to a request from the Shaikh of Dohah
for protection against Sa'ud's Bedouins.
In 187-3 the regular troops originally stationed by the Turks at Kemoval of
Turkish
Dohah appear to have been withdrawn, a detachment of 30 Dhabitiyahe regular
or gendarmes being substituted. troops, 1873.
Except in the internal affairs of Qatar, especially the administration Internal
n . . , fiffairs, 1874.
of the chief town and its immediate environs, little or no change was
produced by the presence of a Turkish post at Dohah ; tribal relations
generally continued on the same footing as formerly, and the Al
Thani Shaikhs of Dohah were still the principal factor in politics.
In 1874 fighting occurred near
Zubarah
18th-century town located 105 km from Doha.
bet ween the Na'im and the 1874,
Bani Hajir, in which the latter were worsted ; and in the same year
60 a
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Theses two volumes make up Volume I, Part IA and Part IB (Historical) (pages i-778 and 779-1624) of the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , ’Omān and Central Arabia (Government of India: 1915), compiled by John Gordon Lorimer and completed for press by Captain L Birdwood.
Part 1A contains an 'Introduction' (pages i-iii) written by Birdwood in Simla, dated 10 October 1914. There is also a 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Tables' (page v-viii) and 'Detailed Table of Contents' (pages ix-cxxx), both of which cover all volumes and parts of the Gazetteer .
Parts IA and IB consist of nine chapters:
- 'Chapter I. General History of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Region' (Part IA, pages 1-396);
- 'Chapter II. History of the ’Omān Sultanate' (Part IA, pages 397-629);
- 'Chapter III. History of Trucial ’Omān' (Part IA, page 630-Part IB, page 786);
- 'Chapter IV. History of Qatar' (Part IB, pages 787-835);
- 'Chapter V. History of Bahrain' (Part IB, pages 836-946);
- 'Chapter VI. History of Hasa' (Part IB, pages 947-999);
- 'Chapter VII. History of Kuwait' (Part 1B, pages 1000-1050);
- 'Chapter VIII. History of Najd or Central Arabia' (Part 1B, pages 1051-1178);
- 'Chapter IX. History of Turkish ’Iraq' (Part 1B, pages 1179-1624).
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- 2 volumes (1624 pages)
- Arrangement
Volume I, Part I has been divided into two bound volumes (1A and 1B) for ease of binding. Part 1A contains an 'Introduction', 'Table of Chapters, Annexures, Appendices and Genealogical Trees' and 'Detailed Table of Contents'. The content is arranged into nine chapters, with accompanying annexures, that relate to specific geographic regions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The chapters are sub-divided into numbered periods according, for example, to the reign of a ruler or regime of a Viceroy, or are arbitrarily based on outstanding land-marks in the history of the region. Each period has been sub-divided into subject headings, each of which has been lettered. The annexures focus on a specific place or historical event. Further subject headings also appear in the right and left margins of the page. Footnotes appear occasionally at the bottom of the page to provide further details and references.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The sequence runs through parts IA and IB as follows:
- Volume I, Part IA: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 456. Total number of folios: 456. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 460.
- Volume I, Part IB: The sequence begins on the first folio with text, on number 457, and ends on the last folio with text, on number 878. It should be noted that folio 488 is followed by folio 488A. Total number of folios: 423. Total number of folios including covers and flysheets: 427.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:130, 1:778, iv-r:iv-v, back-i, front-a, back-a, spine-a, edge-a, head-a, tail-a, front-a-i, v-r:v-v, 779:1098, 1131:1146, 1099:1130, 1147:1484, 1489:1496, 1485:1488, 1497:1624, vi-r:vi-v, back-a-i
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