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Middle East Oil Concessions (1967)
No full textShapefiles depicting oil and gas infrastructure throughout the Middle East. They include polygons of major concession holders, oilfield boundaries, wells (oil, gas, and abandoned), pipelines (existing and under construction), and refineries
Title Turkey Arabia Oman and Aden Political Geography (1897)
No full textShapefiles illustrating highways, caravan routes, steamship lines, telegraph cables (including submarine), railways, and key points (forts, lighthouses). These layers depict the late 19th-century transportation grid and population centres within the broader region
Transjordan, Iraq, and Nejd Boundary Agreements (1925)
No full textShapefiles delineating the boundary lines agreed under the 1925 Bahra (Nejd–Iraq) and Hadda (Nejd–Transjordan) Agreements
Iraq Kurdish Tribal Divisions [1944]
No full textShapefiles of Kurdish tribal boundaries, roads, railways, aerodromes, nomadic passes, and key villages within tribal areas
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Boundaries and Transportation (1921)
No full textShapefiles covering telegraph/telephone lines, roads (main, caravan/native tracks, and unsurveyed), and light/proposed rail networks, providing a snapshot of key transport and communications infrastructure across Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Saudi Arabia Religious Demography (1918)
No full textShapefiles depicting approximate areas of Sunni (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi‘i, Hanbali), Wahhabi (Hanbali), Shia, and Ibadi religious communities, plus mixed territories
Aden Boundaries and Transportation (1956)
No full textShapefiles delineating the 45-degree boundary line, the 1934 treaty line, Western/Eastern boundary, protectorate and sultanate boundaries, and motorable roads across the Aden Protectorates
Palestine Administrative Boundaries and Armistice Lines (1949)
No full textShapefiles capturing the 1949 armistice lines, demilitarized zones, the 1947 UN partition boundaries, land holdings, and the Jerusalem international zone
North Africa Ethnolinguistic Boundaries and Transportation (1920s–1930s)
No full textShapefiles showing Arabophone and Berber-speaking areas (nomadic and settled), plus main roads and operational railways. The dataset highlights interwar-era linguistic zones, approximate tribal boundaries, and regional transport links
Oil and gas infrastructure 1963
No full textShapefiles showing locations and boundaries of oil-producing regions; exploration and production wells; locations and boundaries of natural gas-producing areas; pipelines for transporting oil and gas; refineries