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050	0	0	_aDS272. _bS95 1921
100	1		_aSykes, Percy Molesworth, Sir, _d1867-1945.
245	1	2	_aA history of Persia : _bwith maps and illustrations in two volumes : Volume I / _cby Percy Sykes.
250	1		_bSecond edition.
260			_aLondon : _bMacmillan and Co. Limited, _c1921.
300			_aVol. 1, xxviii, 563 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c30 cm.
500			_a“Percy Molesworth Sykes (1867–1945) was a British soldier, diplomat, and author who wrote several important books about Persia (present-day Iran) and neighboring countries, including Ten Thousand Miles in Persia (1902), The Glory of the Shia World (1910), and this two-volume A History of Persia (1915). Sykes was educated at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and, upon his commission as an officer in the British Army, joined a cavalry regiment in India in 1888. In November 1892, he undertook a secret mission to Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) to survey, on behalf of the British authorities, the Trans-Caspian Railway, recently completed by the Russians. He made trips to Persia in 1893 and 1894 for surveying and mapping, and to cultivate local leaders. In late 1894, he was appointed the first British consul for Kermān and Baluchistan, a position he held for the next decade. After an introduction to the climate and physical features of the country, A History of Persia provides a comprehensive history, from the early civilization of Elam (circa 2700 BC) to the adoption of the first modern constitution in 1906. The book was updated and reprinted in 1921 and 1930 as well as translated into Persian. Presented here is the 1921 edition. It contains maps, illustrations, and a bibliography of sources used by Sykes”—copied from website.
500			_aThe Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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651		0	_aIran – History.
651		0	_aIran – History – Bibliography.
651		0	_aIran – Kings and rulers.
856			_qPDF _uhttps://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds272_s95_1921 _zScanned for ACKU.
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