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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [42] (51/542)
The record is made up of 1 volume (269 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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42
RIVER ROUTES
Eight Bank
Abu'l Fulns tract. Pop., &c. (1908) 1,800 in about 12
villages ; 25,000 palms, 300 cattle, 300 sheep and goats, 110
horses. Decaying brick industry. Small Turkish military
post.
Abn'l Fulus Creek is a large inlet which can be ascended
for some distance by steam launches. It runs into the desert
in the direction of the Khor 'Abdallah, with which it may
communicate.
Abu 'Ibgai extends up to Abu'l Khaslb Creek. Pop., &c.
(1908), 2,000, mixed tribes; 8 or 9 hamlets, 50,000 date-
palms, 200 cattle, 200 sheep and goats, 200 horses. The
Sheikh is agent to the Naqlb of Basra, who owns most of
the property in this neighbourhood.
Abu'l Khasib Creek. At the mouth is a police and
customs post. This creek communicates above Abu'l Khaslb
town with the creek of Abu Mogheireh.
Abu'l Khasib, a town situated 2 m. up the creek of the
same name. Pop. 12,000 of various tribes, including Beni
Malik. T.
The town is divided into two quarters—on the E. of the
creek the Bab Sultan, on the W. the Bab Suleiman. Each
quarter contains a large bazaar in which European goods
are sold.
The town is of considerable antiquity, and is said to have
been named after a freed slave of the Caliph Mansur. It is
now of importance as a centre of the export trade in dates.
Growers and exporters sometimes meet here early in
September to fix season's prices. Agricultural resources were
estimated (1908) at 400,000 palms, 1,000 cattle, 3,000 sheep
and goats, 300 horses, 500 donkeys, and 50 camels.
One of the chief residents was Sheikh Ibrahim bin-'Abdul
Wahad, who had lived at Bombay and could speak Hin-|
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume II, Irak, The Lower Kārūn, and Luristan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, May, 1917), covering the regions of the Shatt el-‘Arab [Shaṭṭ al-‘Arab], Kārūn, Luristan, and the Tigris and Euphrates up to Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallūjah]. 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', 'Abbreviations'. There is a 'Contents' which include the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (Shatt el-‘Arab, The Kārūn, The Tigris, The Euphrates, The Shatt el-Hai);
- Land Routes (The Region of the Shatt el-‘Arab, The Tigris Valley, The Region of the Lower Kārūn River of Luristan, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between the Tigris and Euphrates Valley, The Arabian Desert);
- Railways;
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note and List of Maps;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendices (A: Notes on Weather on the Tigris, B: The Control of the Tigris Water, C: The Control of the Euphrates Water, D: Oil-Fields of the Mesopotamia and Persian Frontier, E: Note on Mules);
- Index;
- Plates;
- Maps.
The volume includes eight plates that illustrate the volume. There are also three maps:
- 'Baghdad';
- 'City Map of Baghdad';
- 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (269 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged accourding to numbered routes. There is a table of contents at the front of the volume and an alphabetical index at the back. There is also a list of plates and two maps are house in a pocket and one is a foldout.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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 the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:374, 374a:374b, 375:530, 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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