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'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [1545] (1700/1782)
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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financial support of the British Government, was succeeded by another
British project for a, Tigris Valley Railway. With this later scheme
the name of the Duke of Sutherland was associated j and Mr. Andrew,
hopeless of the success of his own earlier project, appears to have lent
it his support. The alignment which it was intended to follow was one
by Diyarbakr, Musal, and Baghdad to Kuwait, and a guarantee by the
British Government of a return on £20,000,000 capital to be expended
was sought; but it could not be obtained, and the new project went the
way of its predecessor. One of those who interested themselves m it,
as also in other competing schemes, now not less than nine in num er,
was Commander V. L. Cameron, R. N., who in the winter of 1878-1879
travelled and made surveys in the country to be traversed by the line.
In 1898 it was reported that a concession for a railway from the German
Mediterranean to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
was being sought at Constantinople R lway
in the name of Count Kapnist, a Russian subject, and there was reason
to think that Russia aimed at establishing a coaling station at Kuwait. 1898-1905.
This scheme, however, if it really existed, did not take shape; and its sole
result was the conclusion of an important Agreement, as described
in the chapter on the history of Kuwait, between the Shaikh of Kuwait
and the British Government. But about the same time, on the occasion
of a visit paid by the German Emperor to Turkey, rumours became
current, which were not taken very seriously at the time, of a German
project for connecting Baghdad with Constantinople by railway. The
scheme was a natural corollary of the rapid development of German
railway enterprise in Asia Minor since the foundation of the Ghemm de
Fer Ottoman d'Anatolie by the Deutsche Bank and W urtembergische
Vereins bank in 1889.
We cannot here enter on a detailed account of the steps by which
German flnaneiers eventually secured a concession for ex ending the
Anatolian railway system from Konia to the
circumstances in which British financiers, though offered ™ "PP 0
which in the opinion of the leading British statesmen to h ave h^n
accepted, abstained from ^ Z
that preferential rights in respect of the pioject pie .0, y '
Anatolian Railway Company were confirmed by the ^ ~eut
at the end of 1898 ; that in 1899 an Agreement, in
ween the Porte and the Company was signed , a a G erman
of the proposed trace and commercial prospects of the line by a German
o ! , P . . • i ttact 1900 a draft Convention was submitted
Technical Commission in 1899 1900 ' January 1902 a Convention came
by the Company; that on the 21st January
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1898—1903.
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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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- Title
- '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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