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'Memorandum on the Attrek, or Northern, Frontier of Persia' [117r] (9/50)
The record is made up of 1 file (25 folios). It was created in Sep 1877. It was written in English and French. 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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Printed for the use of the Foreign Officf. September 1877.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Memorandum on the Attrek, or Northern,
Frontier of Persia.
Geographical Magazine
October 1874, p. 27‘2.
Geographical Magazine
October 1876, p. 274.
Goldsmith’s Eastern Persia.”
Khanikoff’s Travels.”
Marco Polo.” By Colonel Yule.
Vol. i, p. 9.
Hee’s Cyclopiedia.’
Hayton’s Central Asia.'
Penny Cyclopaedia,” i850;
Persia.
THE boundary between Persia and Turkestan
has never been clearly defined ; and the conse
quence has been that nearly all the unofficial
published maps have traced the boundary in
different directions; some have placed it above the
River Attrek, some below it, whilst others have
marked the course of that river as forming the
northern boundary of Persia near the Caspian Sea.
To make the following narrative intelligible, it
will be necessary to insert a few outline maps in
order to show how geographers have differed in this
respect.
In 1834, Arrowsmith published a map to illustrate
Lieutenant Burnes’ travels in Persia, &c., and he
placed the boundary of Persia to the north of the
River Attrek.
The following is a sketch of a portion of his
map:—
Arrows* ith's Map, 1834.
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In 1841 a map was published at Berlin, by
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Persia and Turkestan was drawn also as running
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The memorandum concerns Persia's northern frontier with Russian Turkestan along the Attrek [Atrek] River valley. It outlines Russian activities in the region (e.g. troop movements, fort construction, and meetings with local chieftains), along with British and Persian diplomatic responses to these activities; this includes British efforts to prevent Persia from ceding the region to Russian control. It covers British suspicions that the Russians are encroaching on Persia's northern border, and attempting to draw the local Turkoman tribes away from their relations with Persia.
The memorandum is illustrated with a number of map sketches, which show a number of different interpretations of the Persian-Russian frontier:
- Captain George Campbell Napier's Map 1876. Denoting supposed Persian border line (f 116);
- Arrowsmith Map. 1834 (f 117r);
- Zimmerman's Map. 1841 (f 117v);
- Vambery's Map 1863 (f 117v);
- Russian Map 1863 (f 119r);
- Arrowsmith Map 1872 (f 119v);
- Walker's Turkestan. 1873 (f 120r);
- Russian Map 1873 (f 122r);
- Kiepert's Turkestan 1876 (f 135v).
The memorandum includes a number of brief insertions in French; these insertions consist of recollections from diplomatic conversations, which have occurred in relation to Persia's northern frontier.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (25 folios)
- Arrangement
The file consists of a table of contents (folios 114-115), followed by a map (folio 116), which is in turn followed by the body of the memorandum itself (folios 117-137).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at f 113, and terminates at f 137, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Memorandum on the Attrek, or Northern, Frontier of Persia'
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- 113r:115v, 117r:137v
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