فصلنامه گنجینه اسناد
پیاپی 118 (تابستان 1399)

This paper reports how the 1960s land reform in Iran was implemented in the southern territory of Iran along the Persian Gulf.

Archival material and library resources were consulted to collect data.

The reform in the territory proceeded smoothly after resistance by lanlords and tribal chiefs in the neigbering Fars province was suppressed. Landlords voluntarily handed over their ownership documents to the authorities, though some tried to bribe local officials to save their interests. Nonetheless, the absence of an independent department in the region to oversee the reform, lack of financial resources, and trained staff caused some delay in the process.

Ziwiye is an important Iranian archeological site, located 48 km northeast of Saqez. An accidental discovery and subsequent flow of a collection of ancient objects into world collections and museums, fuled commercial excavations during the years 1948 to 1953. That resulted in the destruction of a large part of the artefacts and architectural evidence and the plundering of excavated objects. No report is yet provided about such operations. This paper aims to find out the details of such operations and objects.

Two groups of documents were examined to collect data for this paper: 1) Archival documents and discovery papers; 2. Documents and official correspondence of the National Museum of Iran regarding the purchase of objects from antique dealers

Not all of the objects provided by commercial diggers belonged to Ziwiye as no expert examination was carried out to assure their authenticity.

Withdrawal of foreign forces from Azerbaijan after the end of WWI and at the same time the weakness of the central government in the region, encouraged Simko, the Kurdish warlord, to extend his power further. Simko captured Urmia in January 1921 and extended his power toward south to capture the Kurdish city of Mahabad. Mokhber o-Saltaneh, the governor of Azerbaijan, sent a regiment of the gendarms from Tabriz, commanded by Major Malekzadeh to defend the city. Simko invaded the city captured it in October the same year.  This paper ecamines the developments that led to the fall of  Mahabad in the hands of Simko.

Archival documents and library resources were examined to collect data for this study.

While emphasizing the inevitability of the war in Mahabad, evidnce show that several factors contributed to the fall of the city including the failure of the governor of Azerbaijan and the brigad’s commander to take effective actions. As the result, hundreds of gendarmes were killed the central government's position in the area considerably weakened.

Iinvestigates the importance of exchange of State Orders during the two visits by Mozzafar al-Din Shah (r. 1896 -1907) to Europe.

Data is collected from archival materials held at the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Archives of Iran, as well as library resources.

Official correspondence between Iran and the European countries visited shows that the importance the exchange of such Orders was consid-ered singnificane and could have influence on mutual relationship. However, failing to observe diplomatic protocols caused irregularities with negative implictions for Iran in some cases.

To review the efforts of the German government in the construction of the Iranian railway in the Qajarid era. Also, the role of German companies in the construction of Iran cross country railway and supplying the equipment during the time of Reza Shah is investigated.

Data was gathered from records held at in the Iranian archival centers, as well as Persian, English, German, and Danish library materials.

Despite the increasing presence of the Germans in the political sphere of Iran in the second half of the Qajarid period, Russian and the British opposed the involvement of the Germans in construction of railway in Iran during WWI. In the first stage of the construction of the nation’s cross country railway during Reza Shah time, Germans left a successful record behind. However, as their American partners in the syndicate did not perform well in the southern part of the project, German companies stopped their operations. In the second and final stage, however, because of political turmoil in Germany and competition with the Compax consortium, only a small role was given to Germans. Germany had an outstanding role in the supply of equipment of the project. Eventually, the occupation of Iran by the Allied Forces in mid 1941put an end to their role.

To identify the conceptual-lexical network and the semantic relationships of the thesaurus at Iran National Archives.

Qualitative Contents Analysis applied in order to identify and analyse ontological relationships. Data was collected using a checklist and analysed using RaverMatrix software to make matrix of concept-word and protege 5 for extracting, analysing and delineating lexical concepts.

Qualitative Contents Analysis is suitable for determining "ultra-category, sub-category" in constructing ontologies for religious documents. For the Network conceptualization, the semantic, horizontal, lexical relationships between the indexes and the descriptors of the religious records were constructed and drawn up using Protege 5 software in the standard languages of O.W.L. and R.D.F. The conceptual network of religious records was designed to be used as a standard tool for information storage and retrieval.

The application of materials with lasting and durability physical properties is one of the main criteria for preservation of paper works. In this study we examined physical/thermal function of NFC and BCN cellulose nanofibers into the polymer matrix of Klucel-G, as a modified polymeric material in terms of Glass Transition temperature (Tg), for restoration of paper documents.

Firstly, the Nano-cellulose suspensions by solution casting method with Hydro-solvents in Klucel-G matrix with %2 contents (%Wt) were prepared. Then, films were made by air drying method. Finally, the Tg temperature behavior of these solid samples was studied by Differential Scanning Calorimetry/DSC method. Findings and

Thermal behavior of nanocomposite films containing NFC+Klucel and BCN+Klucel improved compared to the pure Klucel samples (no Nano-additive) due to the increasing glass transition temperature (Tg). This was much higher with BCN than to NFC. The inhibition behavior of NFC and BCN nanofibers composites against aging resulted from the aging conditions, increased significantly compared to pure Klucel sample. On the other hand, this behavior faced with increase for BCN films compared to the NFCs. Findings also showed that NFC nanofibers tend to create significantly higher Tg inhibition during a longer aging interval.