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'Persian Gulf. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 81' [‎6] (12/94)

The record is made up of 1 volume (44 folios). It was created in Jun 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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6 GEOGRAPHY [ no. si
scanty Beduin population, and certain fertile districts
are found in the neighbourhood of springs and wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
mouths.
The principal of these districts are:—
{a) A small district of cultivated soil in the neigh
bourhood of Jahra, close to the foot of the Bay of
Koweit and about 20 miles from Koweit town. This
contains most of the cultivation in the sultanate.
(6) The two important oases of Hasa and Katif,
which form the settled part of the province of Hasa.
The oasis of Hasa is a district which contains some
cultivated areas of great fertility. It extends for
about 30 miles north and south and 20 miles east and
west, and is separated from the Gulf at Okair by
16 miles of desolate sand ridges. There are extensive
date groves in the fertile parts of the district; and in
some parts a number of springs saturate the land and
permit an elaborate system of irrigation for rice.
The important town of Hofuf, capital of the province
of Hasa, is situated in this district in the south
eastern corner of the cultivated area.
The Katif oasis is situated on the coast north-east
of the oasis of Hasa. Its length from north to south
is 18 miles, with an average breadth of 3 miles, the
town of Katif lying in the middle. Most of the area
consists of a sandy plain saturated by spring water.
The cultivated tract ends 6 miles south of the town,
but, as in Hasa, there are detached areas of cultivated
ground.
(c) The Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. el-Miya is a long valley or depression
in the extreme north of the province of Hasa, con
taining numerous wells and springs. It has a dark
brown cultivable soil, and in spring; grass is
abundant.
(d) Further south, in Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , there are small
spots of fertility at occasional wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. mouths.
(ii) The district in the south-east of the Arabian
coastal region contains the most important part of the
Sultanate of Oman, as well as a part of Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ,

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This volume concerns the geography and political history of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in June 1919. It is divided into three sections: 'Geography Physical and Political', divided in 'Arabian Coastal Region', 'Head of the Gulf', 'Persian Littoral' (folios 3-20); 'Political History', including 'History of the Gulf States to 1914' and 'European Activity in the Gulf' (folios 21-38) and 'Social and Political Conditions' (folios 38v-41).

The title page is marked with 'Unclassified' in 1966 (folio 1).

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1 volume (44 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 last folio with text, on number 44.

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