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J.G. Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia, 1915

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‘John Gordon Lorimer’s Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia, issued by the government of British India in two large volumes in 1908–15, is a key reference in the history of the region’ (Fikri 2011, 42). So begins the introduction to this source in Heart and History, together with a slightly blurry image of the three leather-bound books that make up Volume 1.

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Harding, SA. (2022). J.G. Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia, 1915. In: An Archival Journey through the Qatar Peninsula. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03845-7_9

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