'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1200] (1355/1782)
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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Government Ahmad
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, as we have seen, still ruled Baghdad when it was
Pash&. till attacked by the Persians in 1733. He was temporarily removed by the
Sultan, accepting his dismissal with a good grace, about 1734; but his
successors were unablo to maintain order, and about 1736 he was reinsta
ted. In 1741 the Porte proposed to take Basrah from Ahmad
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
and give it to a certain Husain
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
; but they were unable, apparently,
to give effect to their intentions. The Persian attack on Basrah in 1743
was said to have been promoted by Ahmad
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
for the purpose of
enhancing his own importance, or of preventing his own removal from
office for a second time; it became the means of procuring him money,
guns, and other supplies from the Porte ; and after its failure he remained
in undisturbed enjoyment of power until his death, which occurred from
natural causes in 1747 or 1748, in the course of a campaign against the
Kurds. Ahmad
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
was a skilful horseman, and his principal recreation
was hunting lions, which he more than once killed single-handed, armed
only with a spear.
In ]74] Ahmad
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
severely chastised the Bedouins, who had
rebelled, and it was anticipated that they would give no more trouble
for some years; but in 1746 the Arabs near Basrah created dis
turbances, and a force was sent against them from Baghdad under the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
's Kehiyah or deputy. The Kehiyah was anxious to visit Basrah itself,
but he was prevented by the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
and had to content himself with
sending for some of the principal inhabitants, from whom he extorted
large presents. In the spring of 1747 a new
Mutasallim
During the eighteenth century this was the third most powerful official in Ottoman Iraq (after the Pasha and the Kiya). The title was given specifically to the Governor of Basra.
was sent by
Ahmad
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to Basrah with orders for a reassessment of the date groves,
"in order to oppress the Arabs in their tax, whereupon"—so wrote
Mr. Grendon, the British Resident at Basrah—" thinking themselves
" already too highly imposed upon, the tribe called Monteficks are rebelled,
" and to secure themselves and to (cause) the Turks all the detriment
( ' in their power, they have opened the banks of the river which has laid
" the desert quite under water, to the very walls at Basrah ; this accident
" has put the inhabitants into the greatest consternation, being now
" apprehensive lest the disagreeable stench arising from it should cause
" a pestilential fever." In June the inundation became so serious that
three bastions of the Basrah town wall collapsed, and the whole of
the inhabitants were placed on corvee for three days to repair the tottering
ramparts. Shaikh Sa'dun, the chief of the Muntafik was twice captured
by the forces of Ahmad
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, and on the second occasion was put to
death by Sulaiman, the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
^s Kehiyah; and this measure^ followed by
the treacherous execution ot 15 or 20 leading men among the Muntafik
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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)
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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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