Før den moderne staten Irak vart oppretta etter fyrste verdskrig var området betre kjend som Mesopotamia. Dette var òg det offisielle namnet britane brukte om området. Då britane skulle lage ei statseining av dei tidlegare osmanske provinsane Basra og Bagdad (Mosul-provinsen vart lagt til seinare), ynskte dei eit nytt namn. Den britiske høgkommisæren i Irak [...]
Innlegg merkte med ‘1920s’
Irak eller Iraq? Ein fem år lang krangel
Posta: Torsdag, 5 mars, 2009 under Articles, Books, YmseMerkelappar:1920s, Colonial Office, Colonialism, Eyre Crowe, Foreign Office, Hubert Young, Irak, Iraq, Jeffery A. Rudd, K, Kut Qut, Mesopotamia, Name, PCGN, Percy Cox, Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use, Q, Transliteration, William Tyrrell
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Clayton’s Slave
Posta: Torsdag, 4 desember, 2008 under YmseMerkelappar:1920s, An Arabian Diary, Arabia, George Antonius, Gilbert Clayton, Ibn Saud, Lee-Enfield, Rifles, Slave, slavery, Sunset, Weapons
In a continuation of my post from yesterday, Travelling with loaded rifles, here is a new entry from Clayton’s diary. It is five days later, 15th of October 1925, and he is well settled in Ibn Saud’s camp that is situated right outside Mecca. Every evening he, his aide (George Antonius) and their personal bodyguard [...]
As the bird flies so it falls!
Posta: Fredag, 12 september, 2008 under YmseMerkelappar:1920s, Arab Committee of the Pan-Islamic Society, Arabs, Christianity, Crusade, England, English, France, Hejaz, Ibn Saud, Iraq, Islam, Jews, Mesopotamia, Muslims, Nejd, Palestine, Sharif Hussein
So will it be with the English! The following text is a memorandum translated from Arabic describing the “wicked ways” of the English. It was issued by the Arab Committee of the Pan-Islamic Society and distributed secretly. It was written in a pocket book belonging to a member of a deputation from Emir Faisal in [...]
A Growing Power in Arabia
Posta: Onsdag, 16 april, 2008 under YmseMerkelappar:1920s, Arabia, Britain, CE Vickery, Great Britain, Hejaz, Ibn Saud, Ikhwan, Islam, King Husain and the Kingdom of Hejaz, King of the Hejaz, Quote, Randall Baker, Sharif Hussein
In the early 1920′s the power balance in Arabia changed. Sultan Abdul Aziz ibn Saud of Nejd was expanding his realm in all directions and defeated longstanding enemies. Ibn Saud was supported to a certain degree by Great Britain, but one of his main rivals, Hussein b. Ali, Sharif of Mecca and King of the [...]
