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'Military Report and Route Book. The Arabian States of the Persian Gulf. 1939' [108v] (216/328)
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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184
The R. A. F. landing ground and the barracks of the
Levies are at Beit el Felej, four to five miles inland and
are connected to Muscat by the only main route from the
hinterland. A motor road running from there to Matrah
and then winding along the edge of the sea and over a
pass into Muscat town. The barracks are connected by
telephone with the
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
. .There is a R. A. F. bomb store
at the landing ground. Here also is the only flat area
available for a camping ground.
The country in the immediate vicinity, in general is
quite unsuitable for the use of armoured cars or mechanical
transpoit. M. T. can be employed on the winding 1 road
from .Muscat to Matrah and on to the landing ground
area.
The bay is three quarters of a mile deep and balf a
miie wide, giving good anchorage for steamers. It is open
to tho north-north-west and consequently to the Shamal
wind.
Matrah. A large town about two miles to the west of
uscat. It is larger than the capital and is more import
ant commercially, as it has direct communication with the
interior. Like the capital, Matrah is enclosed by rugged
ii s on the landward side but its isolation is less com
plete.
The town is built at the head of Matrah Bay and
ex en s a ong the beach for about f mile and has an aver
age (( {) i inland of i mile. It is protected on the land-
-oT' J 1 6 i a fortified gateways, the principal
ft e . K in ? ^ lc ' Bab-ul Kebir at the south-west corner of
e own. y this gate, the road leaves to the village of
uvu ience routes branch to the Batinah coast and to
<1 ou^ par s oi the interior. On the seaward side, at th«
east end of the town, is a fort built on a rocky eminence.
« 'fi ! . or u ^ ues ® eons truetion of the same type and value
at. As around Muscat, blockhouses
side U 6 a PP roac ^ les of the town from the landward
ThA h «nh 0U f eS ^ a trah are meaner than those of Muscat.
su burbs also are more squalid.
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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