'Mesopotamia. Racial Divisions. Map 2.'
IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1, f 364
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The record is made up of 1 map sheet. It was created in 1916. 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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The map sheet is one of three maps numbered 1 to 3 included in IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1.
The map indicates the locations of different ethnic groups in Mesopotamia, from the entrance to the Shatt al Arab in the south to Diarbekr [Diyarbakir] in the north and Hamadan in the east to Aleppo in the west. These ethnic groups are divided into three categories: ‘Arabs’; ‘Kurds (inclg Yezidis)’; and ‘Mixed races’. The map also shows the routes of railway lines and major waterways, and the locations of notable settlements.
Imprint 'Ordnance Survey 1916'.
- Extent and format
- 1 map sheet
- Area map covers
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- Scale
- Scale 1:7,000,000
- Scale designator
- Horizontal
- Orientation
- North
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- 744 imagesRef: IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1
- Physical characteristics
Materials: printed on paper
Dimensions: 160 x 173mm, on sheet 182 x 309mm
- Written in
- English in Latin script
- Type
- Map
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- 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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- IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1, f 364
- Date(s)
- 1916 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Ethnology
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- Ordnance Survey
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- IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1, f 364
- Title
- 'Mesopotamia. Racial Divisions. Map 2.'
- Pages
- 364r:364v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Public Domain