id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt njp.32101073338012 Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section. Mesopotamia 1920 .txt text/plain 26164 2125 73 these, in so far as they determine the present floodareas and marshes, have great importance for the cultivation of the country as it is to-day, and also for projects of irrigation. 1913 Conclusion of negotiations respecting' Turko-Persian frontier, and navigation of Tigris, Euphrates, and Shatt elArab. development of British interests in the country, combined with a growing connection between Mesopotamia attempt to trade with Basra; and British ships navigated the Tigris and Euphrates throughout the competition, the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company continued to carry the British mails, to the completion of the main line from Konia to Baghdad; from which it appears that the economic development of Mesopotamia was of secondary importance to The important rivers of Mesopotamia are the Tigris, Mesopotamia] RIVERS (SHATT EL-ARAB; TIGRIS) frequent of recent years, but is reported to have interfered with the trade of the river below Baghdad in Mesopotamia) EXPORTS & IMPORTS (BAGHDAD) 129 ./cache/njp.32101073338012.pdf ./txt/njp.32101073338012.txt