Description
Book SynopsisThe story of the making of the present day Iranian, Iraqi and Turkish boundary, this book details how Russian, Ottoman, British and Iranian commissioners worked intermittently over seven decades to create a boundary in an ethnically, religiously and geographically diverse region. It sheds new light on some of the most contentious issues of the present day.
Trade Review'Ateş' study is full of new information, new arguments, and offers new perspectives to historians who aim to study frontier regions, centre-periphery relations and state formation processes in general and Kurdish history in particular.' Yener Koç, Kurdish Studies
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 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.
