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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [167] (176/432)
The record is made up of 1 volume (214 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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KOUTES 25 a, b
167
Miles from
Bagflxdad
274i
278i
290i
292i
winter and spring, even when the river is fordable, its
depth and current make the passage difficult. There are
some small villages down-stream.
Continue over open plain of good soil well cultivated.
The road passes close to the S. extremity of the hilly-
country of the Maqlub and Zardak ranges.
Pass Targulla, 1^ m. to the N. of road. It lies at the S.
extremity of the Zardak Hills (or Jebel 'Ain es-Safra).
Large spring in these hills.
Keremlis. Christian village of 120 well-built stone houses
near a mound. The main road passes close to it, but
there are several parallel tracks all equally good. Water
from stream and from wells. A few vegetable gardens
and an olive-grove. Birtulla is another large Christian
village, 4 m. to the NW. One track goes through it.
There is a track running along the 1, side of a stream-bed which
leads S. by W. to ITimrud (tl9 m., see Tigris, III E, m.
ISOJ). From Nimrnd there is a track along the 1. bank of the
Tigris to Mosul (f22 m. from Nimrud).
From Keremlis the post-road runs across the open
plain to Mosul, which lies W. by N. of Keremlis.
Euin-mounds of Nineveh (Qoyuujiq and Nebi Yunus).
Mosul.
ROUTE 25 b
BAGHDAD— MOSUL (230 m.)
Via Right Bank of the Tigris
Authorities •.—-Military Report on E. T. A., vol. iii, 1904 (route report of Feb. 1908) ;
a report of a journey in autumn 1903 ; and other sources of information.
Baghdad—Samarra.—Before the present war there was a route
passable for wheels as far as Samarra. This was followed by the
large pilgrim-waggons which plied between Samarra and Baghdad.
The road appears to afford good going in dry weather, but is likely
to be very heavy after rain, and in the neighbourhood of Baghdad the
country traversed is more or less flooded in spring. Numerous^ water-
channels are crossed. The palm-tree bridges described in the itinerary
below as occurring near Baghdad do not appear to be suitable for
heavy wheeled traffic, and it appears that the pilgrim waggons did
not follow exactly the course here detailed. At many places there
fe.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume III, Central Mesopotamia with Sourthern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, January, 1917), covering the Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallujah] to Mosul and Meskeneh [Maskanah], the Lesser Zāb, the country east of the Tigris towards the Persian frontier, and the routes running westward from the Euphrates valley across the Syrian Desert. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, and appears to be based on official and unofficial publications and maps which are cited in a bibliographical section in the volume. This volume was supplemented with corrections and additions in June 1918 (see IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/5).
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of 'Contents' which includes the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (The Tigris and the Lesser Zāb, The Euphrates);
- Land Routes (The Tigris Valley with Region to East, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, The Syrian Desert);
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendix;
- Index;
- 'Sketch Map of Routes', which includes 'City Map of Baghdad' (f. 212) and 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes, Volume III' contained in a pocket.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (214 folios)
- Arrangement
This volume is arranged according to numbered routes. There is a page of contents and an alphabetical index. There are two maps housed in a pocket.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio (except for the front cover, where the folio number is located on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also has an original printed pagination sequence.
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