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'File 73/7 II Annex (D 22) Map showing limits of Koweit principality' [4v] (16/18)
The record is made up of 1 file (4 folios). It was created in 4 Aug 1912. 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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The file contains three identical copies of ‘MAP OF THE KUWAIT HINTERLAND’, with a red line marking its proposed limits. The maps were sent as enclosures to a letter from Percy Cox, 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. at Bushire, to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department at Simla, dated 4 August 1912 (folio 150 in IOR/R/15/1/611). The letter was part of a discussion about the status and definition of Kuwait. This discussion was itself part of Anglo-Turkish negotiations connected to the Baghdad Railway and its extension to Basra.
Imprint:
Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Calcutta.
Distinctive Features:
Relief shown by contours and spot heights.
An explanatory note on sources used in compiling the map and a key to symbols at the bottom margin.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (4 folios)
- Area map covers
- Map loading...
- Scale
- Scale 1:506,880
- Scale designator
- Horizontal
- Orientation
- North
- Degree coordinates
- Top-left: 30° 34' 5.88" N, 46° 0' 13.32" E
Top-right: 30° 34' 5.88" N, 49° 33' 43.2" E
Bottom-left: 27° 17' 29.4" N, 46° 0' 13.32" E
Bottom-right: 27° 17' 29.4" N, 49° 33' 43.2" E - Arrangement
There is no particular arrangement.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence has been crossed out.
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- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- Reference
- IOR/R/15/1/612
- Title
- 'File 73/7 II Annex (D 22) Map showing limits of Koweit principality'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1r:2r, 2r:2v, 2v:3r, 3r:3v, 3v:4r, 4r:4v, 4v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence