IRAQ / WORLD WAR I / IRRIGATION: الجزيره قطعه سنك اروا و اسقا مسئله سى [Elcezire Kıtasının İrva ve İska Meselesi]

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IRAQ / WORLD WAR I / IRRIGATION: الجزيره قطعه سنك اروا و اسقا مسئله سى [Elcezire Kıtasının İrva ve İska Meselesi]

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Fahreddin Reşad Bey (Rumbeyoğlu Fahreddin Bey also Rumbeyoğlu Fahr al-Din Bey,1867–1943) – Mehmed Nâbi Bey (1868-1924).

[The Problem of Irrigation and Water Supply in Mesopotamia]

Istanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire 1334 [1918].

8°, 14 pp., [2 pp.] blank, original tan wrappers with lettering on the cover (minor foxing, otherwise in a good, clean condition) (#70726).

An Ottoman pamphlet on the irrigation in Iraq in World War I.

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Description

An Ottoman report, written in April, 1917, describes irrigation projects, mage in Iraq by the British, from 1911 on.

The pamphlet was issued in a series of governmental publications on managing of foreign affairs at the end of World War I by a diplomat Fahreddin Reşad Bey (Rumbeyoğlu Fahreddin Bey also Rumbeyoğlu Fahr al-Din Bey,1867–1943) and a statesman Mehmed Nâbi Bey (1868-1924), from October 1918 a minister of foreign affairs.

We could trace three institutional examples on Worldcat: University of Haifa, Princeton University Library and Universität Bamberg.

References: ÖZEGE 4718. OCLC 745133466, 780209115, 630440884.

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