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Series
Foreign Office: Embassy, Damascus, Syria: General Correspondence
Catalogue reference: FO 1098
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FO 1098
This series contains general correspondence from the British consulate (later embassy) in Damascus.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 1098
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Embassy, Damascus, Syria: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1963-1964
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains general correspondence from the British consulate (later embassy) in Damascus.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign Office, Consulate, Damascus, Syria, 1920-1964
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Syria, 1964-1967
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 file(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- International
- Middle East
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The British embassy to the United Arab Republic was at Cairo. From 1964, when Syria separated from Egypt to become the Syrian Arab Republic, the Damascus office became an embassy. Diplomatic and consular relations between Britain and Syria were broken off in June 1967 following the Arab-Israeli war, and were not resumed until May 1973. Diplomatic and consular relations were again severed in October 1986, and were not resumed until 1990.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8397/
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