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'Military Report on S. W. Persia, Volume II, Arabistan' [‎33r] (70/96)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (44 folios). It was created in 1910. 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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APPENDIX IV.
Agreement between Great Britain and Russia respecting a map of the Turko-
Persian Boundary, March 1865.
The Treaty of Erzeroum was signed on 31st May 1847 for the settlement
of the Turko-Persian Boundary.
Subsequent meetings of the Commission were held in 1849, 1850 and
1851 at Baghdad and Muhammareh. In 1851, Lord Palmerston stated
that it was clear that no settlement would be come to except by an arbitrary
decision on the part of Great Britain and Russia ; and he therefore proposed
that the general line of frontier should be traced by the Agents of the Musul-
man Powers at Constantinople, assisted by the Commissioners, in con
formity with the stipulations of the Treaty of Erzeroum, leaving doubtful
localities to be settled in detail in future. The Russian Government agreed
to this proposal and the work of surveying the country from Mount Ararat
to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. was then commenced. When this was done the
preparation of a map of the Turko-Persian Frontier, embracing a territory,
700 miles in length and from 20 to 40 miles broad was put in hand, and this
work lasted from November 1857 till March 1865, when the Porte was in
formed in May of that year, that, ‘ in the opinion of the Mediating Powers,
the future line of boundary between the respective dominions of the Sultan
and the Shah was to be found within the limits traced on the map, that the
two Muhammadan Governments should themselves mark out the line,
and that in the event of any differences arising between them in regard to
any particular locality, the points in dispute should be referred to the decision
of the Governments of England and Russia.” This boundary has remained
unsettled down to the present time, and disputes have frequently arisen be
tween the Turkish and Persian Governments respecting their respective claims
to land in the Pusht-i-Kuh district, known by the Turks as the Saiyid Hassan
Lands, and by the Persians as Bagh-i-Saleh and Ghoraibah. These districts in
clude a portion of the Saifi and Malkhatari Lands. In 1873 an Agreement,
which had been entered into between the two Powers two or three years pre
viously, was renewed, by which it was agreed that Ghoraibah and Bagh-i-Saleh
should remain intact and should not be interfered with on either side, and
that neither side should claim or institute any right of possession by cultiva
tion or otherwise, until the Commission appointed has expressed its opinion.
From Hertslet’s <c Persian Treaties,” 1891.
A temporary Boundary Agreement between Persia and Turkey was signed on 3rd
August 1869. (See Appendix III.)
In September 1869, a copy of this “ Identic map n was officially communicated to
the Turkish and Persian Governments respectively, but no boundary was marked on

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It consists of a military report on S W Persia, specifically Arabistan [Khūzestān], created for the personal information of the officers of the Army in India. Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the Staff, Army Head Quarters, India. Printed at the Government Monotype Press, Simla, 1910.

It includes a preface by Wilfrid Malleson, Assistant Quarter-Master General, Intelligence Branch.

It is divided into the following sections:

  • general considerations – geographical, political, and commercial;
  • military considerations – communications, supplies, transport, climate, military capacities of inhabitants, medical, and harbour reports;
  • route reports – incorporating comments on the road, climate, supplies, grazing, fuel, water, transport and physical obstacles;
  • appendices – including a table of principal tribes of Arabistan, a translation of Kārūn River Regulations, and abstracts of: the terms of an agreement between Sheikh Khaz'al and the Bakhtīārī Khāns; the Treaty of Erzeroum (1847), the Turko-Persian Boundary Agreement (England and Russia); the Boundary Agreement (Turkey and Persia); and the Nāsirī Company's Concession.

Also includes one map on folio 45: 'MAP to illustrate Military Report on S.W. PERSIA'.

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1 volume (44 folios)
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The item consists of a single report and an accompanying map enclosed in a pocket on the inside back cover. A contents page at the front of the volume (f 5) and index at the rear (ff 39-43) both reference the volume’s original printed pagination.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 46; 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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