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Coll 6/62 'Saudi-Arabia: National and provincial boundaries of –' [55r] (109/121)
The record is made up of 1 file (59 folios). It was created in Sep 1916-14 Dec 1934. 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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5 • Boundaries ~between Sa udi Arabia on the one hand and
the Aden Protectorate, the Sultanate of I/uscat and
the Trucial Sheykhdoms on the other, r
This "boundary is indeterminate. ' Bushire has
indicated two possihie frontiers for Qatar for reasons
given in the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
letter of December 22, 1933. Still
more recent correspondence has shown (a) that there are
other possible variants and (b) that the frontier of Qatar is
not necessarily a frontier between it and Saudi Arabia. The
question turns partly on the present effect of an Anglo-
Turkish convention which was signed on July 29, 1913 but was
not ratified. It determined the boundary of the Ottoman
sanjak of Nejd, as shown by a blue line on an annexed map.
, The Legation in Jedda has no copy of this convention. The
line is thought to lie as shown in blue on the present maps.
Its importance is that His Majesty’s Government might take
their stand on it, if occasion arose, as determining the
South East boundary of Saudi Arabia, even though they did not
claim that the various states in their sphere of influence
extended up to it. There might conceivably be at least one
No Man’s Land.
6. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait Neutral Zone and Kuwait.
These boundaries are laid down by one of the
Protocols signed at Uqair on December 2, 1922. The
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
at Bushire has indicated them on the map. The Neutral Zone
has recently been surveyed by the Royal Air Force but there
has been no agreed delimitation as between the Sheykh of
Kuwait and Ibn Saud.
7. Internal provincial boundaries in Saudi Arabia.
Apart from what is stated at 4 above and the rough
indication on the maps of what is understood to have been the
boundary between the Hejaz and Nejd and its Dependencies when
they were separate, no information is available on this subject.
British Legation, (Signed) RYAN -
13th i'eoruary ,1934.
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This file concerns a request, made by the Army Headquarters, India, to the British Embassy at Baghdad, for a map of Arabia showing the national and provincial boundaries of Saudi Arabia. The correspondence discusses the difficulties associated with marking out the various boundaries, owing to the fact that many of them are 'the subject of actual or potential controversy'. Also discussed are recommended revisions to the boundaries of Arabia, as shown on a National Geographic Society map of Asia (map not included).
Notable correspondents include the following: His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); officials of the Foreign Office, the 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. , the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , the British Embassy in Baghdad, and the British Library of Information in New York.
In addition to correspondence the file includes the following:
- A copy of a memorandum dated 18 April 1932, which recounts an interdepartmental conference held at the Colonial Office three days earlier, concerning the submission of the frontiers of the mandated territories (namely the Iraq- Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan frontier, the Iraq-Kuwait frontier, and the Palestine-Syria frontier) for approval to the Council of the League of Nations.
- Two maps: one depicting the Arabian Peninsula and the other showing the eastern portion of the Aden Protectorate.
Whilst the date range of the file is 1916-1934, only two items (including the aforementioned memorandum) date from earlier than 1934.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence (folio 2).
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- 1 file (59 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 60; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 6/62 'Saudi-Arabia: National and provincial boundaries of –'
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- front, front-i, 2r:58v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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