‘Cyprus.’

IOR/L/MIL/17/16/28

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The record is made up of 1 volume (91 folios). It was created in 1878. 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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Report compiled by Captain Albany Robert Savile of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Master General’s Department, Horse Guards. The report was published and printed in London under the superintendence of HM’s Stationery Office in 1878. The report contains fourteen chapters, labelled I to XIV, as follows:

  • I: a history of Cyprus, from ancient times to the occuption of the island by Britain in 1878
  • II: geography and topography
  • III: towns, villages, and antiquities
  • IV: communications (inland, maritime, and telegraphic)
  • V: coast, harbours
  • VI: climate
  • VII: natural history
  • VIII: agricultural production
  • IX: geology and mineralogy
  • X: population and inhabitants, including their character, language, religion and education
  • XI: internal administration (civil, ecclesiastical, military)
  • XII: manufacture and industry
  • XIII: trade and revenue
  • XIV: currency, weights and measures, list of authorities on Cyprus, cartography of Cyprus

The volume includes a sketch map of Cyprus at the rear (f 91).

Extent and format
1 volume (91 folios)
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Arrangement

A content page at the front of the volume (ff 4-5), and an alphabetically arranged index at the rear (ff 87-89) both refer to the volume’s original printed pagination sequence.

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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 92; 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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English in Latin script
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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/MIL/17/16/28
Former external reference(s)
40185/327 (Wt. B 864.)

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1878 (CE, Gregorian)

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