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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [15] (30/148)
The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1919. 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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Arabia] AUTONOMOUS STATES
15
1913 Province of Ha&a snatched from Turks by Emir of Eiad.
1914 Sheikh of Koweit breaks with Turkey. Emir of Nejd
breaks with Turkey.
1915 Husein negotiates with Great Britain.
1916 Bevolt of Husein.
19L7 Hail ceases to encroach on Hejaz. Disappearance of
Turkish authority from North-West Arabia.
The Autonomous States of Arabia. —Arabia has
never owed common allegiance to any single
authority, either within or without, since the
decay of the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad. From
the early sixteenth century to our own day, however,
the Ottoman Sultans have exercised an influence which,
at one time or another, but never simultaneously
or continuously, has affected most habitable parts
erf the peninsula, except the south-east, in varying
degrees. One other external Power has made good
a footing in Arabia during the past two centuries.
This is Great Britain, whose influence for half a cen
tury past has been at various points in conflict with,
and has often prevailed against, the Ottoman. Besides
these two external authorities, there exist at the
present moment, either in independence or under some
influence of one or the other, certain native prince
doms: (1) the Sherifate of Mecca, now styled the
Kingdom of the Hejaz; (2) the Idrisi Principality of
Sabia in Asir; (3) the Imamate of Sana in Yemen; (4)
the Emirate of Hail in Jebel Shammar; (5) the Emirate
ctf Riad in south Nejd; (6) the Sheikhdom of
Koweit; (7) the Sheikhdom of the Bahrein Islands; (8)
the Sheikhdom of El-Katr; (9) the domain of the five
" Trucial Chiefs " and their dependents; (10) the Sul
tanate of Muscat in Oman; (11) the Sultanate of
Kishn and Sokotra, the Kaaiti Sultanate of Makalla
and western Hadhramaut, and the Kathiri Sheikhdom
of eastern Hadhramaut; (12) the autonomous chiefs
;mder treaty with Aden, who occupy the south-west
angle of the peninsula.
Long as this list is. it does not exhaust the exist
ing autonomies in Arabia, there being many tribal
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This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919.
It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditions' and 'Economic Conditions'. There is an Appendix, containing tables regarding trade in Aden, Muscat and Bahrein, 1909-1917.
There is a map 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabia', compiled by the War Office on June 1914.
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- 1 volume (69 folios)
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the map on a sleeve on the inside back cover, on number 70.
Pagination: There is also an original pagination, iv-vi, 2-127.
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- 'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:6, 1:130, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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