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Page 191
... Persian provinces of Ardilan or Sehna and Kirmanshah , and a strip of country including the plain of Zohab from ... Persia . Like the Feilis , the Beni Laam are fanatical Shias , and their religious sym- pathies , as they have shown when ...
... Persian provinces of Ardilan or Sehna and Kirmanshah , and a strip of country including the plain of Zohab from ... Persia . Like the Feilis , the Beni Laam are fanatical Shias , and their religious sym- pathies , as they have shown when ...
Page 192
... Persia and Turkey , and of the contests between the Zends and the Kajars for the crown of Persia , to establish himself as far as the Hindián River in the Persian province of Fars , and northward along the Karunk to Band - i - Kir ...
... Persia and Turkey , and of the contests between the Zends and the Kajars for the crown of Persia , to establish himself as far as the Hindián River in the Persian province of Fars , and northward along the Karunk to Band - i - Kir ...
Page 193
... Persia co - riparian rights on the Shat- el - Arab , but places in Persian hands a strategical position of the highest value in the event of war with Turkey . If at the conclusion of the Persian war we had not restored Muhamerah this ...
... Persia co - riparian rights on the Shat- el - Arab , but places in Persian hands a strategical position of the highest value in the event of war with Turkey . If at the conclusion of the Persian war we had not restored Muhamerah this ...
Page 195
... Persian Gulf . Turkish authority in these parts is , however , merely nominal ; it may be said to date from 1871 , in which year Midhat Pasha dispatched an expedition from Baghdad to support Abdullah - bin - Feysul in his contest with ...
... Persian Gulf . Turkish authority in these parts is , however , merely nominal ; it may be said to date from 1871 , in which year Midhat Pasha dispatched an expedition from Baghdad to support Abdullah - bin - Feysul in his contest with ...
Page 196
the Persian officials , trade ceased to be profitable , and the lives and property of the Company's servants were exposed to constant peril . Fortunately , a local insurrection resulted in the expulsion of the Persians and the ...
the Persian officials , trade ceased to be profitable , and the lives and property of the Company's servants were exposed to constant peril . Fortunately , a local insurrection resulted in the expulsion of the Persians and the ...
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