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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [25r] (54/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. 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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DESCRIPTION OF THE LAND
21
General Description
{a) The Mesopotamian Plain
(6) The regimes of the Euphrates and Tigris
(c) The Euphrates in Iraq
(d) The Tigris in Iraq
(e) The pattern of the mountains
(/) The pattern of the mountain rivers
Regional Description
Lower Mesopotamia
(a) The lower delta lands
{b) The upper delta lands
Upper Mesopotamia
(a) The Jazira of Iraq
(b) The Assyrian plains and foothills
Iraqi Kurdistan
(a) The basins of the Diyala and Adhaim
(b) The basin of the Little Zab
(c) The basin of the Great Zab
(d) The basin of the Khabur
The Western and Southern Deserts
General Description
(a) The Mesopotamian Plain
The action of the Karkheh and the Karun, which are remarkable
for the amount of sediment which they carry, in forming a barrier
across the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
has already been mentioned (p. 19). The
two rivers, and the greater part of their*combined delta, are in Persia,
so that details do not directly concern Iraq. The Karun now collects
most of the mountain streams d^ining the hills north-east of Ahwaz,
including the Ab-i-Diz, ‘the river of Dizful’. In historical times
it was joined by the Karkheh; but, though their delta is a joint
one, the latter river now pours most of its silt-laden waters into the
low ground on both sides of the Iraq-Persian boundary east of Amara,
where it aids the flood waters of the Tigris in building up the land
between the Tigris and the lower Karun. The main channel of the
Karun now joins the Shatt al Arab—the combined outlet of the
Tigris and of the Euphrates—at Mohammerah (Khorramshahr)
just outside Iraq, and 23 miles down-river of Basra; but this is a
comparatively recent event, for in the tenth century a.d. Abadan
was the seaport of Basra, actually on the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, and the joint
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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