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'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman' [89] (103/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (112 folios). It was created in 1933. 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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chap. ii.—geogeaphy—oman.
(1) Independent Oman. —There are two small independ-
■ent tracts, Jau and the Barami Oasis, and Mahadhah,
between the Oman Sultanate and
Trucial Oman
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
to which
(he Sultan of Oman has never laid claim.
It is however convenient to describe these areas in this
chapter.
■Jan and the Baraimi Oasis. —This is the more important
tract and includes Jebel Hafit. Its principal settlement is
a group of villages and hamlets of which Baraimi is the
chief.
The place is important strategically as being in the
direct path of a hostile force invading Oman from the
west.
Mahadhah. —This is a plain lying 15 to 20 miles to the
north-east of the Baraimi Oasis.
It contains only the one village Mahadhah.
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Place,
Position.
Water Su pply.
Remarks.
Dahariz
4 m. east of
Hafah.
••
A village of about
100 huts.
Hafah .
2 m. east of
Salalah.
A village of about
150 huts.
Salalah .
6 m. from
west end of
Dhofar.
!
The capital of
Dhofar, a large
village of about
200 houses, cot
ton and wheat
are cultivated,
as well as tobac
co and sugar
cane.
Rakhyut
i3 m. west of
Has Sajar.
:J
A village of about
60 or 70 huts.
Kharifot
4 m. west of
Rakhyut.
Water from a
stream of
running wa
ter.
A small village of
about 30 huts,
and the western
most settlement
of Dhofar.
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The volume is Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Oman (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1933). The volume was produced by the General Staff, India. The place name Bahrain is rendered in the title and elsewhere in the volume in the spelling 'Bahrein'.
The volume contains information in separate sections for each of the places listed in the title under the following chapter headings:
- I Historical (ff 8-14);
- II Geography, Climate, Health (ff 15-54);
- III Population (ff 54-67);
- IV Water Supply; Resources (ff 68-70);
- V Armed Forces (ff 70-75);
- VI Aviation (ff 75-78);
- VII Political (ff 79-81);
- VIII Inter-Communication [wireless and telegraph] (ff 81-82);
- IX Communications [land routes] (ff 83-98).
There are three appendices, which follow the same format:
- I Currency, Weights and Measures (f 99-102);
- II Landing Facilities - Maritime (ff 103-106);
- III List of Maps (f 106).
The volume includes five maps of the region (ff 109-113).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (112 folios)
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There is a list of contents on ff 6-7, which contains an inaccuracy in the title and number of the last chapter.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 113 on the last of the five maps inserted in a pocket attached to the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. All five maps (ff 109, 110, 111, 112, 113) need to folded out to be examined. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages in the volume.
Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence, numbered 2-198 appears between ff 8-106.
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- 'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman'
- Pages
- front, front-i, i-r:iii-r, ii-v, iv-r:iv-v, 1:4, 1:208, v-r:v-v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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