1. The Ottoman Empire north of 33°N

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Abstract: Printed sheet covering the Ottoman Empire as far south as Damascus and Baghdad. Includes all, or at least significant parts, of present-day Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. Portrays hydrology, railways, settlements, place names, and international and internal boundaries; there is also a 'key to names of places denoted by figures'. The sheet bears the imprints 'Malby & Sons, Lith.' and '5708.35,000.10/16'.The verso bears the annotation 'Armenia & Asia Minor'.Physical description: Materials: Printed in colourDimensions: 326 x 617mm, on sheet 337 x 654mm

2. File 3136/1914 Pt 7 ‘German War. Turkey. Situation in Egypt &c.’

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Abstract: Papers concerning Britain’s declaration of Egypt as a British Protectorate in November 1914. The volume includes:Correspondence relating to Britain’s annexation of Cyprus in November 1914, and the status of Cypriots and Egyptians in Cyprus as British subjects (ff 120-125).Papers concerning the status of Egyptians as British subjects (ff 116-119, ff 78-83), including Foreign Office guidance on the new Egyptian Nationality Law, dated 9 June 1915 (f 83).Copies of two proclamations (undated, both translations in English) addressed to the ‘People of Egypt’ (ff 102-115, ff 87-99), one of which claims to have been authored by the Senoussi [Senussi]. The proclamations are responses to Britain’s declaration of Egypt as a British protectorate.Translated documents taken from prisoners on patrols of the Bir Mahadat [Bi’r al Mahdāt], which are anti-British in rhetoric (ff 73-77).A copy of an intercepted letter (in French), dated 26 December 1915, addressed to Mohammed Farid Bey [Muḥammad Farīd], and presumed by British intelligence officials to have been written by Abdul Aziz Shawish [‘Abd al-‘Azīz Shāwīsh] (ff 61-65).Secret reports from MI1 (Military Intelligence, Section 1), reporting intelligence relating to Egypt, Turkey and Germany (ff 47-58).Papers reporting on the movements and actions in 1917 of the ex-Khedive of Egypt [‘Abbās Ḥilmī Pasha], including his relations with Turkish officials (ff 5-36).The volume’s principal correspondents are: the British Ambassador at Berne, Switzerland (Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff, Horace George Montagu Rumbold); the Foreign Office (chiefly Ralph Spencer Paget); the India Office (Arthur Hirtzel, John Evelyn Shuckburgh).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 126; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.