Iraq

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The country of Iraq was previously part of the area known as Mesopotamia. It was also known as Turkish Arabia.

Iraq's modern borders were created in 1920 by a League of Nations mandate and Iraq was placed under British control, known as the British Mandate of Mesopotamia. A monarchy was established in 1921 and the Kingdom of Iraq gained independence from Britain in 1932.

The capital is Baghdad.

Also see

Records

The FamilySearch Library catalogue has an entry for this typescript. However it appears to be only available at the Library in Salt Lake City.
A search for Persian Gulf includes the following entry:
  • Persian Gulf (& surrounds) : MIs: An Indian miscellany, consisting of genealogical & biographical notes & lists of monumental inscriptions by H Bullock and H K Percy-Smith 1941-44

External links

  • Mesopotamia Wikipedia
  • Iraq Wikipedia
  • British Mandate of Mesopotamia 1920-1932 Wikipedia
  • "The Raj Reconsidered: British India’s Informal Empire and Spheres of Influence in Asia and Africa" by James Onley Asian Affairs Volume XL, no. I, March 2009 html version, original pdf
  • This link is a table which shows the Persian Gulf Division of the Bombay Postal Circle (Bombay GPO) and the Sindh Postal Circle (Karachi GPO), in Basrah and Baghdad [1]
  • "Scientific Instrument with a Story to Tell" by John Packer Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society No. 92 (2007), pages 17-18. html version,original pdf
Briefly mentions the Indo-European Telegraph Department connecting India with Baghdad, in the early 1860’s, the route being Karachi, Gwadur (Baluchistan), Fao (now Fawr, Iraq), Basra, Baghdad, (then part of greater Turkey), and from there to Europe.
  • This link (Sothebys) gives details of the papers of Sir Harford Jones. At the age of 19, Jones was posted to Basra in the service of the East India Company, to be assistant factor. He remained in the post for a decade (1783-1794). He was Resident in Baghdad from 1798 to 1804.
  • This link gives details of the book Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan & Turkish Arabia 1857 by J. F Jones , Indian Navy, a 1998 facsimile re-publication ,one of the volumes in a series of Bombay Government Records. It includes "Memoir on the Province of Baghdad, 1855" which gives much information about Baghdad at that time. Available at the British Library
  • Iraq Britishempire.co.uk
  • The British in Mesopotamia stanford.edu
  • Old Magazine Articles: Iraq 1920s oldmagazinearticles.com
  • The British in Mesopotamia/Iraq casahistoria.net
  • "Tea and travellers - Baghdad's lost British past Recalling the heyday of the British Embassy" The Times February 28, 2003
  • "Echoes of the Past", a Baghdad graveyard Guardian.co.uk 22 June 2004
  • Grandpa’s Journal Harry James Goulter Pearman was with the Army Audit Staff in Mesopotamia. Most of the entries are for 1921. (Note: It is difficult to navigate this site for some/all browsers. The dates of the entries of the diary are in the top LH corner of the Home webpage. The links for entries from the journal are in the format http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/ab.cd.ef.shtml , where, for a particular entry, ab is the year, cd is the month, ef is the first mentioned day in the month (all two digits)). A sample page is Sunday 18 December 1921

Historical books online

Outline Map showing Routes: Volume II, Outline Map showing Routes: Volume III, Outline Map showing Routes: Volume IV

References

  1. ↑ The Arabian frontier of the British Raj: merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf, page 118 by James Onley 2007 Google Books
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