Persia / [prepared ... under the direction of K. Mason].

  • Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division
Date:
1945
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Credit: Persia / [prepared ... under the direction of K. Mason]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Route [15]. ‘Tapriz-ErzuruM (Turkey) Distances in miles (0) Tabriz. (40) Marand. (92) Khoi. (170) Maku. (183) Turkish frontier at Bazargan. (409) Erzurum (Turkey). Route [16]. ‘TABRIZ-KERMANSHAH Distances in miles ‘ (o) Tabriz. (33) Gugan. (76) Maragheh. (110) Miyanduab. (168) Saqqiz. (259) Senna (Sinneh). (355) Kermanshah. Branch Route [16a]. Mryanpuas—Mosut (Iraq) Muileages from Tabriz (110) Miyahduab. (138) Mehabad (Sauj Bulagh). (229) Iraq frontier (Gowre Shinke pass). (391) Mosul (Iraq), via Ruwandiz and Erbil. Branch Route [168]. SAQQIZ-SARDASHT Mileages from Tabriz (168) Saqqiz. (210) Baneh. (239) Sardasht. Branch Route {[16c]. SENNA-HAMADAN Mileages from Tabriz (259) Senna. (311) Qurveh. (364) Hamadan. RAILWAYS History and General Description The isolation of Persia caused by the frontier barriers of mountain and desert and her position off the trade-routes of the world account for the almost complete lack of railways until the present century. No railway construction in Persia was undertaken before 1927, excepting a short length of line from the Caspian Sea, a 5-mile line from Tehran (completed in 1887), an extension of the Russian railway from Julfa to Tabriz built in 1916 (which remained Russian property until 1935), and the north-west railway system of India, which reached across the border into Persian Baluchistan near Zahidan (Duzdap) during the War of 1914-1918, but was afterwards abandoned. The subsequent development was due to the personal initiative of Riza Shah for political and economic reasons: to increase the control of the central Government and the internal security of the country, to distribute the agricultural products of the fertile north throughout the more arid