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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [‎40r] (84/366)

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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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centre and elsewhere Bakhtiaris and mixed Persians and Arabs
peculiar to the Mianab. In spring the island is covered with
vegetation, but in vdnter there is no verdure except in the neigh
bourhood of the villages. The area of the Mianab is only about
270 square miles, and the whole of it could be watered from the
Mianau canal if it were improved and worked.
The game of the Mianab comprises mallard, teal, snipe,
plover and francolin, sandgrouse and pigeons ; there are also
jackals and pigs, and there were formerly lions.
For roads on the Mianab, vide Chapter VI.
^)) Salbuq. (Haji). An island on the Shatt al ’Arab on the
Persian side and belonging to Persia. It has obtained its name
from an original settler on it; but it is also known by that of
Muhilleh. It is separated from the mainland by a channel,
through wdiich even small vessels cannot pass except at high
water. It has a length of 5 miles and its greatest breadth is
2J miles; its upper end lies about 4 miles below the junction of
the Karun with the Shatt al ’Arab. The island is very fertile
and the whole is under cultivation ; mi the southern side called
Bahrieh are several villages.
(10) Shah Mir Nu'am an ,—An uninhabited island in the river
Hindian, 4 miles west-south-west of Kaparkah. A shrine of the
same name stands on the right bank of the river.
(11) Umm-al-Nakhl. —An island in the river Karun, imme
diately above the Ahwaz rapids.
(K) Umm-al-Saha. —An island in the river Karun, between
the second lowest and lowest of the Ahwaz rapids. 13
(13) Uaikh-Mian. —A hard sandbank at the entrance of the
Shatt-al- Arab, nearly dry at low water, and the principal danger
in entering the river. It divides the river into two parts ; it is
hardest at the southern end.
CREEKS—
(1) Khur Dauraqistan. —Lat. 30-1-20. Long. 48-54-30.
A winding tidal inlet, running in from the Southern ’Arabis-
tan coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. into the Karun river. It is about
35 miles in length and runs in a general south-easterly direction
from the town of Buzieh to Khur Vasteh.

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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.

Physical characteristics

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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