File 2879/1919 Pt 1-4 'IRAQ: KURDISTAN'

Title:

File 2879/1919 Pt 1-4 'IRAQ: KURDISTAN'

Date:

1919/1921

Description:

Abstract: The volume relates to ‘uprisings’ and violent incidents that took place against British political and military personnel in southern and central Kurdistan, a region which was of strategic importance to the British authorities in Mesopotamia. It comprises four parts (items) as follows:IOR/L/PS/10/833/1: Part 1, ‘MESOPOTAMIA Kurdistan: The Suleimanieh Outbreak’ (ff 207-284)IOR/L/PS/10/833/2: Part 2, ‘MESOPOTAMIA Kurdistan: The Amadia Incident’ (ff 143-206)IOR/L/PS/10/833/3: Part 3, ‘MESPOTAMIA KURDISTAN The AQRAH Incident: Murder of Messrs Bill & Scott’ (ff 57-142)IOR/L/PS/10/833/4: Part 4, ‘Mesopotamia: The Telafar Outrage’ (ff 1-56).The papers in each part mainly comprise: India Office Political Department circulation forms containing the file number, subject, and notes or comments written by senior department officials; copies of telegrams (in typescript and printed format); India Office minute papers containing draft letters; India Office draft telegrams; letters; memoranda; reports; and Foreign Office covering memoranda to enclosures.Each part includes a Political and Secret Department 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 end of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 284; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. The foliation sequence does not include the leading flyleaf and the end flyleaf.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Military operations
Insurrections

Geographic region:

Kurdistan

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0002d7_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0002d7_en
IOR/L/PS/10/833
IOR/L/PS/10/833

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