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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [333r] (668/862)
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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PORTS AND INLAND TOWNS
Umm Qasr
A small military port was built as a supplement to Basra at this
village (population 1,000) in the War of 1914-1918. In 1942 the
scheme was renewed. Timber wharves were built allowing for a
maximum of 6 deep-water berths. The greater part of the scheme
was apparently completed by January 1943, when 8 light portal
cranes (3-5 tons) and one 15-ton crane were due to be installed. The
estimated capacity on completion was 10,000 tons a month. There
are railway sidings connected to the metre-gauge Basra-Baghdad
railway at Shuaiba junction. No further details are available for
publication.
Mosul. 36° 20'N., 43°o 8 / E. ; alt. c. 730 feet. Pop. 100,000 (est.
1940). Liwa cap.; H.Q. Northern Command. Meteorological
Station (R.I.A.F.).
Mosul lies on the western bank of the Tigris, which undercuts its
walls. The country west of the town rises in gentle down-like
undulations to the low ranges of the Jabal Nuwaigit and Jabal Atshan
(1,000-1,600 ft.). The town owes its importance to its position
opposite the fertile north Assyrian plain, for which it is the market, as
it is also for the Kurdish mountains, the northern Jazira of Iraq, and
the Jabal Sinjar. The population is of mixed origin, the preponderat
ing influence and language being Arabic. There are many Kurds,
some 6,500 Jews in a separate quarter, and about 25,000 Christians,
who are mostly Syriac-speaking Nestorians, Chaldeans, Syrian Catho
lics, and Jacobites, with a few Latins and Armenians.
History
The two great mounds covering the ruins of Nineveh, the capital
of the Assyrian Empire, are on the left bank of the Tigris opposite
Mosul (photo. 36). Afterits destruction by theMedes in6i2 b.c. there
appears to have been no considerable city in the immediate neighbour
hood until the Sassanid period, when the existence of the town of
Budh Ardashir is recorded, near which the Sassanid monarch
Chosroes II was defeated by the Byzantine emperor Heraclius in
a.d. 627 (p. 237). Mosul, meaning the ‘confluence’—of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Khosar and Tigris—first appears in a.d. 636, as the name of the town
on the right bank which became the capital of the Jazira province
of the Omayyad Empire under Marwan II. It grew to be a great
city in the Abbasid period, a centre of commerce and industry,
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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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