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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [68v] (141/530)
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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LAND ROUTES
Zab river. Here a track from the Lizan bridge meets it
(see lioute 68 b, tinder m. 28, ii).
Eoad now goes up the 1. bank of the Zab and for more than
20 m. is extremely difficult for laden mules, ascending
and descending stanga in many places.
A very bad stanga is crossed, 800 yds. long.
Chumbi de Umara, a Nestorian village.
Eoute crosses a slope of debris and boulders, and goes over
some open ground.
Bridge, built on 3 piers. On the opposite or r. bank,
Kurdish village of Chumbi de Kurdai. From this
village a track goes down the r. bank for 1 m. and (hen
turns up the hill to W. to Ashita, the capital of Tiari,
9 m. distant.
Route continues up 1. bank.
Deir Marsova (alt. 3,100 ft.), Nestorian village. Here is
a well-known place of pilgrimage. The valley is 100 yds
wide.
Cross a stream coming from Rumta, and a slope of debris.
Chumbi de Immah.
Cross another slope of debris and a small Pass on
r. bank the Maidani stream.
Pass Chumbi de Malik, on r. bank, a Nestorian village of
some importance, whose houses and cultivation are on
both sides of the river. Here is the residence of Malik
Ishmaerl, the Chief of the Upper Tiari Nestorians. There
is a wicker bridge over the Zab.
Bedel Yertha, Nestorian village on 1. bank.
Bridge, of the cantilever type.
Cross a succession of three stang and four slopes of debris.
Pass a small stream on r. bank in ■whose valley lies the
important Nestorian village of Malata.
Chumbi de Haso, on r. bank.
Proceed through the cultivation of Ehan Dadush. Cross
a large stream in whose valley lies Dadush, a Nestorian
village, and pass a succession of slopes of debris and
stanga, one of which, 1-| m. from Khan Dadush, is par
ticularly difficult to cross. Enter a great canon, which
winds considerably and along which there is a fairly
good causeway accessible only when the river is low in
the late summer and autumn ; at other seasons of the
i
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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'.
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- 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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