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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [404r] (810/862)
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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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
Year
Iraq
General History
400-500
603-619
Arab dynasties of Hira established
Chosroes II invades Asia Minor
THE ARAB CALIPHATES
637 Moslem conquest of Mesopotamia
661 Murder of Ali near Najaf
680 Death of Husain at battle of Karbala
750 Foundation of Abbasid Caliphate
762-66 Mansur builds city of Baghdad
786-809 Harun ar Rashid, Caliph
836 Capital moved to Samarra
869-83 Zanj rebellion
892 Capital returns to Baghdad
944 Hamdanid dynasty at Mosul
945 Buwayhids conquer Iraq
1055 Seljuk Turks supplant Buwayhids
1258 Hulagu Khan conquers Iraq. End of
Abbasid Caliphate
1393-14° 1 Invasions of Tamerlane
1508 Ismail, Shah of Persia, takes Baghdad
OTTOMAN RULE
1534 Ottoman conquest of Iraq
1623 Shah Abbas drives out Ottomans
1638 Ottomans recover Iraq
1643 First British
factory
An East India Company trading post.
at Basra
1704-23 Hasan, first Mamluk
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
of Baghdad
Invasions of Shah Nadir Quli
1752 British trade supreme at Basra
1800-4 Wahhabi raids
1837 Chesney explores rivers by steamship
1869-72 Governorship of Midhat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
1908 Willcocks’s barrage begun. Arab nation
alism first organized at Basra
1913-14 Turko-Persian Boundary Commission
1914 British land at Fao
1915-16 Siege of Kut
1917 British take Baghdad
1918 Turks evacuate Iraq
MODERN IRAQ
1920 Arab Revolt
1922 Mandate begins. Faisal becomes King of
Iraq.
Birth of Mohammed
Death of Mohammed
Moslems conquer Syria
Moslems reach Oxus
Omayyad Caliphate begins
Moslem conquest of Spain
Eastern provinces gain independence 822-60
Egypt secedes 868
Fatimids conquer Egypt
First Crusade
Saladin combats Crusaders
Jenghiz Khan overruns Iranian
plateau
Ottoman expansion in
Anatolia
Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey.
Sultan Mohammed II organizes
Ottoman Empire
Albuquerque at Ormuz
Portuguese defeat Ottoman fleet off
Diu
Clive Governor of Bengal
(1758-60; 1765-7)
Reforms of Sultan Mahmud II
Tanzimat reforms at Istanbul
Revolution of Young Turks
Great War
Faisal, King of Syria
Mandates for Palestine and Trans
jordan (British) and Syria (French)
begin. Independence of Egypt
recognized.
1924
Anglo-Iraqi treaty
Ibn Saud, King of the Hejaz
1925
1926
Settlement of Mosul problem
Anglo-Hejaz Treaty
1927
i!
1932
End of Mandate. Second Anglo-Iraqi
treaty
Rise of Hitler
v;
1933
Assyrian troubles. Death of Faisal
1933
1936 Army coup d’6tat
1941
Rashid Ali’s coup d’etat. British occupy
Iraq
Iraq declares war on Germany
Rebellion in Palestine
World War begins
Allied defeat in Greece,
attacks Russia. Syria
occupied by Allies
General German defeat
1914-18
1920
1922
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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