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Persia

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Sultan Ahmad Shah, born January 20, 1898 (27th Shaban 1315), succeeded his father, Muhammad Ali Shah (who abdicated) July 16, 1909, under regency of Ali Reza Khan, Azud el Mulk, chief of the Kajar tribe.

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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Persia

1. Official Publications

  • Eastern Persia: an Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission 1870–72. 2 vols. 1876.

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  • Treaty Series, No. 10, 1903. This gives the Commercial Convention of May 27, 1903, The customs tariff is also given in the Board of Trade Journal (No. 826) for February 19, 1903, and in United States Consular Reports (No. 273) for June, 1903. Treaty series No. 34. Convention with Russia relating to Persia, Afghanistan, and Thibet, 1907.

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J. Scott Keltie LL.D. (Secretary to the Royal Geographical Society, Honorary Corresponding Member of the Geographical Societies of Scotland, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Rome, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Buda-pest, Geneva, Neuchatel Philadelphia, and of the Commercial Geographical Society of Paris)

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Keltie, J.S. (1910). Persia. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270398_45

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