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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [115r] (234/530)
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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EOUTE 89 b
225
Miles from
Bitlis
m
181
21|
22i
or i
' faJ 2
Pass Sakh, 50 Armenian houses, to r.
Watershed between the Tigris and Lake Van is crossed into
the wooded headwaters of a tributary of the Kavar
Dereh, a stream which lower down is known as the
Gtizel Dereh.
Tributary stream coming from Khart, 1 m. to 1., 40
Armenian houses.
Gerp, 20 Armenian houses, ^ m. to r.
Cross the Kavar Dereh by a raft. Masonry bridge.
EZhotuni, 60 houses. Turn sharply to NE. following the r.
bank of the stream, up the valley which is 200 to 300 yds.
wide. Some low junipers are passed on hill to 1. The
stream is crossed by a 15-ft. masonry bridge (alt. 5,775 ft.).
A wooded rocky valley is passed to r., in which lies
Kamar, 20 Kurd houses. The stream, 20 ft. wide and
1 ft. deep in September, is recrossed by another 15-ft.
masonry bridge, and the r. bank is followed by a broad
track.
Track passes to r. a rocky valley, 300 to 400 yds. wide,
which grows good hay, and down which flows the
Sapor Sn, the boundary between the of Van
and Bitlis; the Kurd village of Sapor, 15 houses, is
situated up this valley, past which a very steep mule-
track leads E. over the Sakh Dagh to the Ghitzau Dereh.
Track now crosses a ridge.
Sakach, Kurdish village of 15 houses. Eoute leaves the
basin of the Kavar Dereh by a low col, passing through
oaks and brushwood into the valley of a small stream
flowing NE.
Shamunis, on the S. shore of Lake Van. 89 a
(m. 261) to Van is joined here.
MES. IV
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:262v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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