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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1510] (1665/1782)
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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"05. In January 1905 Sa'dnn
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
was understood to be suln. f« r .
pardon from the Porte ; but before long he was again guilty „ f ^
disturbances on Turkish soil Mukhlis
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, Wali of Basrah, th.n
<'oii6scated his landed property and endeavoured to arrest Mm' His
capture, however, could not he effected.
Relations of Turkish 'Iraq with Kuwait andNajd, 1876-1905.
The relations of Turkish 'Iraq during this period with Kuwait and
Najd are descnbed fully in the chapters on the history of those territorial
divisions, Ihe outstanding features of the time were firstly persistent
e or s y the Turkish authorities, between 1899 and 1903, to incor
porate Kuwait with the Basrah Wilayat, and secondly a Turkish cam-
paign in Qasim in 1904, followed by a Turkish pacific occupation ot
tnat district which ended pitiably in 1906.
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Relations of Turkish Iraq with Persia, 1876-1905.
Question of mi • .
K* 1 „„,w e State 0f the T >«-ko-Persian boundary, which the
1877-84. t e 0r S of Brit am and Russia, exerted over a period of thirty
vears, ad failed to remedy, continued under 'Abdul Hamid to g-ive rise
to occasional difficulties.
f COntrovers y t,iat arose during the period was one relating
fL ^ ^ >7n 1Sland firSt made its a PP earance > a s a mud-hank, about
he year 1,70 ; and its aspect in 1877, when it came under dispute, and
th that time Were described b 7 Surgeon-Major Colvill of
the Baghdad Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
in the following terms :
above and mile8 ^ ow ^ohammerah, and six miles
be no name but in A ^ 6 U . lklsl1 Cu8tom House at Dawasir. Shallah appears to
have been annlied ' ^fK' 0 a eeneilC term mean i n g out-growth, and it is well it should
been left aJone w u Ca8e, f0r thi8 i8 realI y n o island but a bank, which bad it
been left alone would even now have been covered by every tide
thousand'vards widt Ala ^ ^ ^ l8 ' 8 broader than usual, being about three
and the ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 0f ^
the Turkish sbnr rl -4 i oosand yards from the Peman and two thousand from
tarklib shore, and situated as it wore in the m „„th of tbi, Persian bay. 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).
- Extent and format
- 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.
- Physical characteristics
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'
- Pages
- 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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