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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [356r] (714/862)
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
555
Basra in the invasions of the Wahhabis, who took it temporarily in 1804.
Till 1918 it was ruled by an hereditary shaikh, but is now within the Iraqi
administration.
The town is still walled. Its houses are plain mud- or burnt-brick build
ings, with cool sirdabs (p. 349) and sometimes with fozd/zV.y or wind-catchers.
The large covered bazaar is clean and of interest, being the centre of beduin
trade. Camel caravans unload on the Maidan. The town exists by the
desert trade and is the principal beduin market of the Southern Desert.
There are several mosques, which are filled five times a day, the Sunni
ceremonies being strictly maintained. The tomb of Zubair, marked by its
leaning minaref, is a pilgrim centre. The town, being visited by all the
southern tribes, is a sounding-board for Arabian intelligence and rumours.
Supplies are plentiful, and water is from wells.
Communications
Rail: The metre-gauge line from Basra by Shuaiba junction to the war
time port of Umm Qasr serves the town (Rly. 1).
Road: Tarmac road [2] north-east to Basra, and unsurfaced road south
east to Umm Qasr. Motor-road south to Kuwait. Tarmac road north
west to Shuaiba. Unmetalled road [2] to Ur and Nasiriya.
Air: R.A.F. airfield 2 miles north-west at Shuaiba.
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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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- Title
- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
- Pages
- 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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