Foreign Office: Confidential Print Eastern Affairs 1812-1946

Foreign Office: Confidential Print Eastern Affairs 1812-1946

Author: The National Archives (Kew, United Kingdom)

Year: 1812

FO 406/1-84 Eastern Affairs consists of volumes on Syria, Palestine, the Arabian states, Iraq (including the Baghdad Railway and international disputes concerning the completion of the line from Constantinople to Basra between 1903 and 1911), Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Persia and Afghanistan from 1812 to 1946. Around half the volumes focus on the 1920s and 1930s. Many of the earlier documents reflect increasing tensions in the region and amongst the Great Powers in the decade leading up to the First World War.