File 3846/1910 'Mesopotamia: Baghdad affairs. Miscellaneous.'

Title:

File 3846/1910 'Mesopotamia: Baghdad affairs. Miscellaneous.'

Date:

1910/1912

Description:

Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and memoranda, relating to the encroachment on the British Residency in Iraq by the Vali of Baghdad for the purpose of road widening. Also discussed is interference by the Turkish authorities with the property of Messrs Lynch Brothers as well as the ice factories of British Indians.The file also includes monthly summaries of events in Turkish Iraq compiled by the Political Resident in Turkish Arabia and His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General Baghdad, John Gordon Lorimer. These are generally arranged in the following sections: Musal [Mosul] wilayet; Baghdad wilayet; Basrah wilayet; Persian affairs; Najd affairs; British interests; foreign interests and cases other than Persia and British; commercial matters; general and miscellaneous.Correspondents include: the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey; the Viceroy; Ambassador in Constantinople, Sir Gerard Lowther; British Vice-Consul, Karbala, M.H. Mosin; Political Resident in Turkish Arabia and His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, Baghdad.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 262; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Diplomacy
Consular services
Government of the Ottoman Empire
Vali of Baghdad

Geographic region:

Baghdad

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000051_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000051_en
IOR/L/PS/10/188
IOR/L/PS/10/188

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