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===Historical books online===

:Also see [[Gazetteers#Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia|Gazetteers - Persian Gulf, Oman And Central Arabia]]

*[https://archive.org/details/voyagestravellso00olea ''The voyages and travells of the ambassadors sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia. : Begun in the year M. DC. XXXIII. and finish'd in M. DC. XXXIX. Containing a compleat history of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, and other adjacent countries. With several publick transactions reaching near the present times; in VII books. Whereto are added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo (a gentleman belonging to the Embassay) from Persia, into the East-Indies ... in III books ..''] by Adam Olearius, 1669. [https://archive.org/stream/voyagestravellso00olea#page/316/mode/2up Part 2: The Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo] page 317. Archive.org.

*[https://archive.org/details/travelsofsirjohn00char/page/n7/mode/2up ''The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies Through the Black-Sea and the Country of Colchis: the first volume, containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan : to which is added, the coronation of this present king of Persia, Solyman the Third''] 1686 Archive.org. (Colchis variously described as Western Caucasus, eastern shores of the Black Sea, parts of Georgia.<ref> [https://faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/bronze/morrittabstracts/26mor.htm faculty.ucr.edu]</ref>). [http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31753.0001.001 Transcribed edition 1686] EEBO-TCP umich.edu. [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023512011.0x000001 1691 edition with Twenty Five Copper plates] Qatar Digital Library, book from the British Library Printed Collections, ORW.1986.b.10

*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209652 ''SW Persia: A Political Officers Diary 1907-1914''] by Sir Arnold Wilson 1941 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.

:[https://archive.org/details/ThePersianGulf.AnHistoricalSketchFromTheEarliestTimesToTheBeginningOfTheTwentiet/page/n4/mode/2up ''The Persian Gulf. An Historical Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century''] by Lt. Col. Sir Arnold T Wilson 1928. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283609/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd file] Archive.org

*First World War period and later: British Library India Office Records on Qatar Digital Library

**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000142 ''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919'']. A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly in 1929. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/28

**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x000019 ''Where's Where in Arabia, Mesopotamia and Persia''] by General Staff, India 1916 IOR/L/PS/20/84 . The catalogue description states "The volume serves as an index of places featured on Survey of India degree sheets 2C, 2D, 2G, 2H, 2K, 1L, 2O, 2P, 3A, 3E, 3I, 3J, 3M, 3N, 10A, 10B, and 10C. The places are arranged alphabetically and give the degree sheet reference". Note: Maps [degree sheets] are not included, however the following less detailed maps may '''possibly''' give an indication of location if numbering was consistent over different series. [http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/india_1m/index_map.jpg Index to the Sheets of the India and Adjacent Countries Series] [http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/india_1m/Sheet-2-baghdad-1917.jpg Sheet 2], [http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/india_1m/sheet-10-bushire-persia_arabia_and_turkey_in_asia-1915.jpg Sheet 10]. From [http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/ Topographic maps], lib.utexas.edu.

*:[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100040685807.0x000002 1915 edition] IOR/R/15/5/383

* ''Old Routes Of Western Iran'' by Sir Aurel Stein 1940. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208590 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.

*[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000880.0x0002d8 ''Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service''] by Sir John Richard Cotton (b 1909). British Library Mss Eur F226/7 . Qatar Digital Library. A photocopy of a typewritten draft written c 1983. [https://web.archive.org/web/20171206135947/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1383640/Sir-John-Cotton.html. ''The Telegraph'' Obituary 2002]. After spending his childhood in India, he returned in 1929, initially in the 8th (King George's Own) Light Cavalry, then joined the Indian Political Service in 1934 where he served in the Persian Gulf and in Aden, Addis Ababa in Abyssinia then a series of Indian princely states. After Independence he joined the British Foreign Service.