DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SOURCES . . . EXTERNAL FILES

Country Profiles

Articles 'Asir, from Wikipedia; 'Asir, from Old Countries; from Encyclopedia of the Orient; from Speedy Look

Links, General

Historical Dictionaries

Historical Maps

Map : Asir 1910-1915, from Wikimedia

Timelines

Accounts of History

from Wikipedia, from Encyclopedia of the Orient, from Speedy Look, from Asir Heritage and Civilization, by Tor Eigeland (1980), The Idrisi State in Asir 1906-1934, by Anne K. Bang

Encyclopedia Entries

Article Arabia, from EB 1911; from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907 edition Article Arabia, from EB 1902 Article Asir, from EB 1911 Article Asir, from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1885-1892, in German

Military

Saudi Conquest of Asir 1920, from ACED; Saudi-Yemeni War 1934, from ACED

Economy & Finances

Global Currency History : Saudi Arabia

Ethnography, Demography

Main Tribes of the Arab Peninsula : Bani Yam, from King Abdul Aziz (Ibn Saud) Information Source

Religion

History of Regions

Regions of Saudi Arabia, from www.statoids.com

History of Cities

Abha and Assir Region, from Saudi Cities Article : Abha, from Wikipedia, Article Jizan, from Wikipedia; Article : Abha, from Encyclopedia of the Orient Article Najran, from Wikipedia

Institutions

Article King Khalid University, from Wikipedia

Bibliographies

Search RHS Bibliography for Asir

Biographies

Others

Battle of Wadi Hajlah, surrender of Abha and conquest of Asir, Asir Prospers under Saudi Rule, Yemeni Imam reasserts his claim to Najran, Asir and Tihama, Saudis drive the Yemenis out of Najran, Treaty of Taif signed between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, from King Abdul Aziz (Ibn Saud) Information Source The Yemeni-Saudi Border Treaty, from The Estimate, 2000

DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SOURCES . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS

Lists of Statesmen

World Statesmen : Other Arab Polities, by Ben Cahoon; scroll down for Asir; Regnal Chronologies : Asir

Population Figures

Historical Population Statistics : Saudi Arabia, administrative divisions, from Population Statistics by Jan Lahmeyer

Document Collections

Historic Picture Postcards, from Postcardman, commercial site The Letters of T.E. Lawrence Gertrude Bell Letter Archive, Univ. of Newcastle British Intelligence Reports on the Creation of Saudi Arabia, published by IDC Publishers A Collection of First World War Military Handbooks of Arabia, 1913-1917, from Archive Editions Search Hansard for Asir

Archives, Musea, Libraries

National Symbols

Flag, from Wikipedia

Coins, Banknotes

PRINTED REFERENCES

On the Middle East

Ritchie Ovendale, The Longman Companion to the Middle East since 1914, London etc.: Longman 1994 [G]

General Accounts

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition, Macropaedia, Vol.13, pp.833-841 Article Arabia : Saudi Arabia KMLA Lib.Sign. R 032 B862h v.13 Madawi al-Rasheed, A History of Saudi Arabia, Cambridge : UP 2002, KMLA Lib.Sign. 953.805 A459h

Specific Periods

H.-J. Kornrumpf, Die osmanische Herrschaft auf der Arabischen Halbinsel im 19. Jahrhundert (1980), (Ottoman rule on the Arabian Peninsula in the 19th Century), in : Analecta Isisiana LV, Istanbul : Isis 2001 pp.39-50, in German [G]

Historical Dictionary

J.E. Peterson, Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia, Metuchen N.J. : Scarecrow 1993 [G]

Yearbooks

Article Arabia Kingdom of Nejd, Kingdom of Hejaz, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1925 pp.662-667 (data of 1923-1925) [G] Article Arabia : Asir, in : New International Year Book 1919 p.50, 1920 p.48, 1921 p.49, 1922 p.49, 1923 p.50, 1925 p.46 [G]