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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [9v] (23/366)
The record is made up of 1 volume (179 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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485 - 466 .
331.
316.
245.
A. D.
226.
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hand. A second pretender, Martiya, rose in Elam but Darius
had already shown his power in the empire and rebellions ceased.
On peace being established throughout the empire Darius
divided the country into a number of satrapies, of which Elam
(Susiana), now for the first time called Uvaja, was one. Another
act of Darius, which touches on this province w as the construc
tion of the Royal Road from Susa to Sardes, a distance of about
1500 miles. In 485 E. C. Darius died and was succeeded by
Xerxes, whose only connection with Uvaja was that he went
from Sardes to Susa, where he was lost to view for several years.
The next reference of any importance to the province of
Uvaja is the capture of Susa by Alexander immediately after
the battle of Arbela, in which he gained such a decisive victory.
At Susa he celebrated his triumph with great splendour, and
then marched against Persepolis crossing the Karun at Ahwaz.
It was at Susa again six years later after his conquests in
Persia and India that Alexander celebrated the termination of
the greatest expedition recorded in history with rejoicings and
weddings between the noblest Macedonians and Persians. In
323 Alexander the Great died.
Susa once again becomes the object of an expedition, and in
316 falls to the combined forces of Antigonus of Phrygia and
Seleucus, formerly a favourite of Alexander and the founder of
the Seleucid dynasty. Susa was pillaged and all its treasures
taken to Babylon by Antigonus, but not without great loss to
his forces, which were attacked as they were attempting to cross
the Karun by Eumenes, the late King’s secretarv.
The third Syrian v/ar. From an inscribed stone it is learnt
that Ptolemy III at this date subjugated Mesopotamia, Susiana,
Persia, Media and all the districts as far as Bactria. But this
was rather a raid than a conquest, since affairs in Egypt
compelled Ptolemy to return there.
No more is heard of Susiana until the downfall of the Parthian
Empire in 226 A.I)., when Artaxerxes, known as Ardeshir, the
Vassal King of Persia, rebelled and utterly defeated^Vrtabanus
on the plain of Hormuz, some thirty miles east of Ahwaz. This
battle is recorded as the decisive battle, which caused the down
fall of the Parthian Empire.
Ardeshir wuts the founder of the Sasanian dynasty, which for
many years yet wall be better remembered in ’Arabistan than
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Confidential military report on Arabistan [Khūzestān] compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed by the Government of India Press, 1924.
The report contains nine chapters (numbered I-IX) and seven appendices (A-G) as follows:
- chapter I – history (general, ancient, modern, political attitude);
- II – geography (boundaries, area, general description, altitude, mountains, rivers and fords, towns and villages, tracts of land, islands, fortified places, political divisions);
- III – climate (general, temperature, winds, rainfall, mirages, general medical and sanitary conditions, principal diseases, conditions affecting aviation and military operations);
- IV – economic resources (general, labour, agriculture, livestock, manufacture, power, commerce, customs, banking, revenue, tables of imports and exports);
- V – ethnography (general, population, races, religions, languages);
- VI – tribes (general, armed forces, tribes in relation to possible centres of disturbance, political attitudes, military considerations, tribal action, punitive measures, recapitulation, lists of tribes);
- VII – personalities;
- VIII – communications (general, communications by sea, inland waterways, railways, telegraphs and telephones, post, aerodromes and possible aerodromes, wireless and visual communication, principal routes by land, sea and river);
- IX – administration (general, government establishments, northern province, southern province);
- appendix A – bibliographical notes;
- B – weights and measures, coinage and time;
- C – glossary of topographical terms;
- D – Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] regulations;
- E – concession granted to the “Nasiri Company”;
- F – customs schedule;
- G – Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
The volume contains a single map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 180).
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- 1 volume (179 folios)
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A contents list (ff 4-5) and index (ff 171-177) reference the report’s 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 181; 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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