Lower Mesopotamia map by the Survey of India

Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 7 (Oversized), Folder: 5

Identifier: GTM-20230717

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Scope and Contents

One map titled "Lower Mesopotamia" printed in Dehradun, India, by the Survey of India in 1914. One of 500 printed copies that were issued to British staff officers on the eve of the Mesopotamian Campaign and the invasion of Ottoman Iraq. It depicts central and southern Iraq, Kuwait, southwestern Persia, and the head of the Arabian Gulf.

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Dates

Creation: 1914

Creator

Survey of India (Person)

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