West Asia in the modern era (1800 – 1914). Revolutions, industry, nation-states and empires that spanned the globe. These articles cover the long nineteenth century.
Rawlinson copied the Behistun inscription between 1835 and 1847; in 1857 four sealed translations of one Assyrian text tested the decipherment.
· 1847Egypt granted the Suez concession, bought 44 percent of the shares and supplied the labor. In November 1875 a bankrupt khedive sold that stake to Britain.
· 1869A 50-year tobacco monopoly granted on March 8, 1890 for 15,000 pounds a year; a fatwa ended it by January 1892, and the bill was 500,000 pounds.
· 1891Thousands camped in Tehran's British legation garden in July 1906 until the shah decreed an assembly. That Majles was shelled in 1908 and shut in 1911.
· 1906William Knox D'Arcy signed a 60-year Persian oil concession on May 28, 1901. Seven years later, a well at Masjed Soleyman struck oil on May 26, 1908.
· 1908The Hejaz Railway reached Medina on September 1, 1908, funded by subscription under Sultan Abdulhamid II, a 2010 study of Ottoman newspapers shows.
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