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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [42v] (89/530)
The record is made up of 1 volume (263 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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80
LAND ROUTES
Miles from
Chianeh
6
13i
15
16-|
18
23
24
26
27i
29
32
36
the hills. Extensive ince cultivation at W, end of
plain.
Hills close in, leaving a gap about 1 m. wide.
Derbend, small village in the gap. Emerge through the
pass into the Ushnu plain, which is 18 m. long and 8 m.
broad at the centre.
Cross irrigation cuts and marshy ground. Very heavy
going for baggage animals.
Ford the Sulduz Glial (or Jerratu), 30 yds. wide and 2 ft.
deep in July 1888. Through deep swamp for 300 yds.
beyond ford ; then very muddy road ; over irrigation
cuts.
Khaldavai, village of 100 houses, with a small grove of
willows. Cross muddy irrigation cuts.
Kurishawa, small Kurd village. Some wheat and barley
cultivation.
Ford small river.
Ushnu (alt. 4,619 ft.).
Route now follows a broad track by the foot of the hills,
heading NE.
Nahirwan, 150 houses, in a small valley to 1. Extensive
orchards and gardens.
Aliawa, in the plain lower down.
High rugged hills to NW.
Plain narrows. Begin ascent of valley ^ m. wide.
Sengan, 50 houses, to r.
Ascend steeply to NW. by a zigzag ledge in clay soil
6-8 ft. wide cut in the hill-side. This would require
improvement for guns.
Reach summit, alt. 6,025 ft., and cross a wide, grassy
basin, skirting a number of rocky ravines to W.
Ascend gradually and cross a ravine with a stream from
the E.
Cross a broad, rounded summit, the watershed between the
Ushnu and Barandiz streams.
Aq Bulaq, 4 m. to W. in an open grassy valley.
Baghshlrim, close to road.
Easy track over open uplands.
Descend a narrow valley by a stream and ford it. Deep
slopes on either hand. Good hay by the stream banks in
summer.
Sakaneh and Aineromeh, small villages to r.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume IV, Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April, 1917), covering Mesopotamia north of the line joining Rowanduz, Mosul, Meskeneh [Maskanah], and Aleppo, up to Van, Bitlis, Diarbekr, and Mar‘ash. 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.
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', and 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of contents which includes the following sections:
- Introduction;
- Itineraries;
- River Routes (The Tigris, The Euphrates);
- Land Routes (Central Kurdistan, Routes between Mosul and Diarbekr, Routes between the Plain of Diarbekr and the Moutains to North and West, Routes between the line Diarbekr-Mardīn and the Euphrates, Interior of Norther Jezīreh, West of the Jaghjagha Su, The Euphrates Valley and Country West thereof, Across the Taurus between the Euphrates and Mar‘ash, and Aleppo-Mar‘ash);
- Railways (Aleppo-Ras el-‘Ain-Tel Ermen);
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Index;
- Plates;
- 'Sketch Map of Routes'.
The volume contains 15 plates, which illustrate the content of the various chapters, and 1 map entitled 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (263 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged by numbered routes. There are pages of contents, an index, and a list of plates. There is one map house 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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