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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1404] (1559/1782)
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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Commander
W. B. Selby.
1404
completed by his Assistant,
Midshipman
An experienced sailor, but not a commissioned officer.
Collingwood, a large scale plan*
of Baghdad city ; it was accompanied by a memoir on the province, full of
statistical information, from the pen of Commander Jones himself. I
1854 he sent to England, along with a memoir, three sheets of a
"Babylonian^ survey which he had completed, and which extended fiom
Musaiyib on the Euphrates to the north-west corner of the Bahr-an-Nakf ■
but the maps were lost in the India House. After this, returning p-e'
maturely from leave, he acted as
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
at Baghdad from Mar.h
to October 1855.
In 1855 Commander Selby succeeded Commander P. Jones in charge
of the Mesopotamian surveys ; and the districts of Babylon Karbak
Kufah and Najaf, already covered by Commander Jones, were trigono-
metrically resurveyed by him with the assistance of Lieutenants Colling-
wood and Bewsher, besides which a considerable tract of country to the
eastward was taken in.
This survey was finished in 1861; but the clean sheets were again
lost, together with an elaborate paper by Commander Selby. The field
books and original sheets having been procured from Baghdad, however,
an admirable map was produced from them by Lieutenant Collingwood •
it now requires some correction in consequence of natural changes, but
it . t em. unlike 1} to be superseded. Other minor surveys were carried out
by Lieutenant Collingwood.
The general outeome of the Chesuey Expedition, and of 22 years'
labour on the part of the Indian Navy officers mentioned who continued
its work, was that Turkish 'Iraq had been converted from a
terra incogmta into a country perfectly well understood in its main
eatures, whde certain important districts in it had heen carefully
delineated in great detail.
archaeological . v,l hi' politically, but nevertheless of great importance in the
rT ^ arCh{e0l0gical reSearoh ' were excavations undertaken and
the discoveries made by British travellers and officials during this period at
the ancient sites of Assyria and Babylonia. The subject t lies beyond
Batrhtkd r the best in exi8 tence. It was borrowed by the Wali of
itlLr : ? Sldent in 1912 f0r P ractical Ptoses and was used in 1913
lion umW ^ 1768 0 afilm of eIectvl " ca, en &i Deers charged with the installa-
had to worl^ 0 el< ' ctriic tramwa ys and lighting at Baghdad. Collingwood
notimr be ri 0n . , aCC0Unfc of the suspiciousness of the Turkish authorities,
made Commfn T ^ a r ' enCil U P 0n his white shirt - Whilelthe plan was being
1 The fnl J T ab8ented Wlf ^ ^ghdad on other work
Nineveh avrl V ' . 0n ^ ies consulted : Layard's Early Adventures, 1887,
Bahvlon ms f^T*' 1848 ' *** ^eav^es in tie Buils of Ninevek and
Babylon^ 1863; Loftua Travels and ^searches, 1857, besides hi articles it the
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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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- 'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915'
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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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