Author | John Gordon Lorimer |
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Language | English |
Published | 1908, 1915 |
Pages | 5000[1] |
The Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia (nicknamed Lorimer)[2] is a two-volume encyclopedia compiled by John Gordon Lorimer. The Gazetteer was published in secret by the British government in India in 1908 and 1915 and it served as a handbook for British diplomats in the Arabian Peninsula and Persia.[1]
The work was declassified in 1955 under the fifty-year rule, and was widely praised for its extensive coverage of the region's history and geography.[2] It is considered to be "the most important single source of historical material on the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia" from the 17th to early 20th century.[1]