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'Military Report and Route Book. The Arabian States of the Persian Gulf. 1939' [82r] (163/328)
The record is made up of 1 volume (157 folios and 7 maps in pocket). It was created in 1940. 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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133
The mountain tract is in the East where a section
the spinal range of the Oman Promontory is included.
This tract is about 50 miles in extent from north to
south and its average breadth is about 20 miles. Tht
mountain ridges run from north to south. The tract is
bare and, for the most part, waterless.
The Baraimi Oasis is situated in the centre of the
southern base of the Oman peninsula, approximately 75
miles east of Abu Dhabi. It is a very fertile area of
about four square miles, watered by streams. It contains
some ten villages, which are separated by stretches of un
fertile plain. To the south, this plain continues on both
sides of Jabel Hafit, to a breadth of about three miles on
either side, the eastern plain being bounded by ihe Oman
foothills, and the western by continuous sandhills. Jebel
Hafit rises out of this plain as a great bare hog's back to a
height of "about 300 ft. above the plain level. On the uorch
the sandhills curve round and about on Jebel Samaini.
North of this sand the plain runs on past Jebel heiyah
towards Ras al Khaimah. Dhaid is situated on th<?
northern part of this plain on a large
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
which tuns
from the neighbourhood of Jezir-at al Hamra on the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
to near the end of Jebel Faiyah.
3. The Principalities, (a) Abu Dhabi. —This princi
pality is the largest in the area. It stretches along the
coast from the creek of Ghanadhah on the north to Khor
Odaid on the west. Towards the interior the bounugri-js
are, ill-defined. They are said to extend on the ea.tt to the
Baraimi Oasis and on the south to the margin or the Great
Desert.
The principality consists of the following districts from
west to east :—
Aqal, Mijan, Sabkhah Matti, Dhafrah and Abu Dhabi.
All are tracts of sandy desert with a very poor water
supply.
Included in the principality are the islands of Arstanfth,
Daiyinah, Das, Qarnain. Zirko, Dalmah, Yas and Salali.
Of these the only important islands are Dalmah and \ *s
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This volume contains geographical information and maps about the Arabian States of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . It was produced by the General Staff, India, and printed by the Manager, Government of India Press, Simla, 1940.
The volume is divided into two sections: 'Military Report' including general descriptions of Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Muscat and Oman (folios 6-127) and 'Routes' (folios 128-164) including maps of:
- The Arabian States of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Muscat and Oman, and Routes in the area (f 158);
- Kuwait Area (f 159);
- Bahrein, Hasa and Qatar (f 160);
- Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (f 161);
- Muscat and Oman (f 162);
and sketches of:
- Bahrein Oil Company's area and important places (f 163);
- Sharjah and Dibai [Dubai] (f 158).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (157 folios and 7 maps in pocket)
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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 front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last of several maps which are stored in a pocket at the back of the volume, on number 164.
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- IOR/L/PS/20/C252
- Title
- 'Military Report and Route Book. The Arabian States of the Persian Gulf. 1939'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:156v, 158r:164v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence