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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [403v] (809/862)
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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APPENDIX D
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
(The earlier dates are approximate)
Year
Iraq
General History
Year
EARLIEST CULTURES
4500 Predynastic cultures
3100 First Dynasties of Ur and Lagash
2528 Sarrukin of Agade. First Empire
Mesopotamia
2300 City State of Ashur
2277-2170 Third Dynasty of Ur
BABYLON AND ASSYRIA
1792-175° Hammurabi. First Empire of Baby
lon. Shamsi-Adad I king of Ashur
1600-1400 Kassite primacy in Babylonia
1447-1412 Egyptian control of Mitanni
I 385 -i 345 Hittite control of Mitanni
Ashur-Uballit founds military' system of
Assyria
1248—1241 Tukulti-Enurta I of Assyria conquers
Mitanni and Babylonia
1190-1180 Hittite invasions weaken Assyria
1125 Nebuchadnezzar I revives power of Baby
lon
1107 Figlath-Pileser I of Assyria destroys
Hittites and re-unites Mesopotamia
1100-900 Aramean migrations disturb Middle
East
883-824 Assyrian Empire established byAshur-
Nasirpal III and Shalmaneser III
722 Merodach-Baladan, Chaldean king of
Babylon
720-711 Sargon builds Dur Shurrukin (Khorsa-
bad)
Sennacherib destroys Babylon
Babylon rebuilt
Babylonians and Medes destroy Assyria
in Semitic immigration into Palestine
Hyksos invade Egypt
18th Dynasty of Egypt
Mitanni conquest of Jazira
1800
1600
c. 1600
King David captures Jerusalem
Shalmaneser V destroys Israel
Sargon defeats Egypt and controls c. 720
rising power of Media
Sennacherib besieges Jerusalem 701
Nebuchadnezzar defeats Egyptians at 604
Carchemish
Nebuchadnezzar takes Jerusalem and 596
carries Jews into exile
Cyrus the Persian ends Median 553
monarchy
RULE
Graeco-Persian wars 490-438
Philip of Macedon unites Greece 338
189
64
53
Rise of Roman power in Italy c. 300
Parthian kingdom established in Iran 200
Roman Empire reaches Taurus
Syria a Roman province
Parthians defeat Romans at Carrhae
Birth of Christ
Christianity preached at Edessa
Persians rise against Parthians
Sassanid Empire established
Constantine recognizes Christianity
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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.
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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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