The Ottoman-Iranian borderlands : making a boundary, 1843-1914

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    • Ateş, Sabri

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The Ottoman-Iranian borderlands : making a boundary, 1843-1914

Sabri Ateş

Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-335) and index

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Description

Using a plethora of hitherto unused and under-utilized sources from the Ottoman, British and Iranian archives, Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands traces seven decades of intermittent work by Russian, British, Ottoman and Iranian technical and diplomatic teams to turn an ill-defined and highly porous area into an internationally recognized boundary. By examining the process of boundary negotiation by the international commissioners and their interactions with the borderland peoples they encountered, the book tells the story of how the Muslim world's oldest borderland was transformed into a bordered land. It details how the borderland peoples, whose habitat straddled the frontier, responded to those processes as well as to the ideas and institutions that accompanied their implementation. It shows that the making of the boundary played a significant role in shaping Ottoman-Iranian relations and in the identity and citizenship choices of the borderland peoples.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. The Kurdish frontier in Ottoman-Qajar relations
  • 2. Laying the ground: the concert of Zagros
  • 3. The long journey of the first survey commission
  • 4. The borderland between the Crimean War and Berlin congress
  • 5. Sunnis for the sultan: the Ottoman occupation of northwestern Iran, 1905-12
  • 6. Boundary at last
  • Conclusion.

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