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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [40v] (85/366)
The record is made up of 1 volume (179 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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(2) Khur Khafgah. —A creek on the coast of ’Arabfeton It
is formed by the island^of ’Abadan on the west and A r
on the east.
(3) Khur Musa. —A remarkable inlet of the sea whxch i
the Persan Gulf at its northern extrennty ^ the
Shatt-al-Arab, and affords easy access to Buzieh ^d M ^
the ports respectively of the Fallahiyah and Jarraln distncts.
For details re navigation vide Persian Gazetteer.
(4) Khur Nasiri. —The east and west part of the Her Khafgah
where it turns the Shatt-ai- Arab. .
FORTIFIED PLACES.—
(1) Diz Miandizan. —A hill fort in Khuzistan, situated on the
hills overlooking the plain between Dizful and Shushtar. It is
a place of very considerable strength, and belongs to the Mahmud
Salih division of the Chehar Lang Bakhtiari.
(2> Kaleh-i-Dukhtar. —An ancient fort in Persia on the left
bank of the Karun, at the point where it emerges from the moun
tains into the plain of Aqili. It consists of a lofty detached
rock, which rises abruptly from the river, and has been sur
rounded and fortified to its very summit by great masses of
stone, taken from the torrent and united with the most tenacious
cement.
(3) Shush. —The site and ruins of the ancient Susa in
Northern ’Arabistan, vide Chapter I. It is situated on the left
bank of the Shaur, 15 miles south-west of Dizful, The or ginal
city covered the whole between the Shaur and Karkheh rivers,
some 1| miles and beyond the latter. The mounds on the left
bank of the Shaur cover a space of over 6 miles in circumference,
and are in three concentric tiers. The uppermost tier or citadel,
still known as the Kaleh Shush, is 120 feet high with a perimeter
of 1,100 yards at the base and 850 yards at the summit. The
second tier, representing the old palace, is some 70 feet high
with a perimeter of some 2J miles.
In 1916 during the war Shush played an important part
chiefly as a defensive position with the power to hold in check
the rebellious tribes of the surrounding district. From a military
point of view Shush is an isolated hill surmounted by a fort,
which could held out indefinitely against local levies unprovided
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Confidential military report on Arabistan [Khūzestān] compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed by the Government of India Press, 1924.
The report contains nine chapters (numbered I-IX) and seven appendices (A-G) as follows:
- chapter I – history (general, ancient, modern, political attitude);
- II – geography (boundaries, area, general description, altitude, mountains, rivers and fords, towns and villages, tracts of land, islands, fortified places, political divisions);
- III – climate (general, temperature, winds, rainfall, mirages, general medical and sanitary conditions, principal diseases, conditions affecting aviation and military operations);
- IV – economic resources (general, labour, agriculture, livestock, manufacture, power, commerce, customs, banking, revenue, tables of imports and exports);
- V – ethnography (general, population, races, religions, languages);
- VI – tribes (general, armed forces, tribes in relation to possible centres of disturbance, political attitudes, military considerations, tribal action, punitive measures, recapitulation, lists of tribes);
- VII – personalities;
- VIII – communications (general, communications by sea, inland waterways, railways, telegraphs and telephones, post, aerodromes and possible aerodromes, wireless and visual communication, principal routes by land, sea and river);
- IX – administration (general, government establishments, northern province, southern province);
- appendix A – bibliographical notes;
- B – weights and measures, coinage and time;
- C – glossary of topographical terms;
- D – Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] regulations;
- E – concession granted to the “Nasiri Company”;
- F – customs schedule;
- G – Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
The volume contains a single map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 180).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (179 folios)
- Arrangement
A contents list (ff 4-5) and index (ff 171-177) reference the report’s 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 181; 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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