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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [151r] (306/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. 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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Patesi might master several cities and rule them as Lugal or king.
A-Anni-Pada of Ur about 3100 b.c. and Ur-Nina of Lagash, about
3000, are the earliest known rulers. Somewhat later Eannadu of
Lagash was a great military leader who made his city paramount over
Umma and Kish, Erech and Ur, defeated Akshak, and drove out an
incursion of Elamite tribesmen. The last king of Lagash, Urukagina,
was notable as a civil administrator, preventing corruption, reforming
taxation, codifying and improving laws. After him the power of
Lagash was overthrown by Lugal Zaggisi of Umma and of Erech
(c. 2500) who was supreme throughout Sumer and much of Akkad,
Tigris, to the Upper Sea (i.e. Mediterranean)’. This was the begin-
powers ruling in Mesopotamia in the following millennia. Mari, 1
a Sumerian town near Hit on the Euphrates, and Rapiqu nearer
Falluja, were outposts linking Syria with Babylonia.
Sarrukin of Akkad. After Lugal Zaggisi the hegemony of southern
Mesopotamia passed from the Sumerians to the Semites of Akkad.
Sarrukin (2528-2473), king of Agade and Kish, took Lugal Zaggisi
captive and became master of the Sumerian cities of Erech and Ur.
His power extended to the Upper Sea, to the ‘Cedar Forest’ of
Lebanon and the ‘Silver Mountains’ of the Taurus, and he made
his arm felt in Elam. Later Babylonian chroniclers, who knew him
of the Four Quarters of the World.
End of Sumer. After 2370 the power of Akkad weakened and the
mountaineers of Guti overran the land, until native supremacy was
restored by the Third Dynasty of Ur (2277-2170). Dungi or Shulgi,
second of the line, who took the new title of ‘King of Sumer and
Akkad’, extended his influence as far as Naram-Sin had done. These
kings were not Akkadians but Sumerians, and resisted the growing
influence of Akkad. The last of them was carried away captive by
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
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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 430; 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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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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