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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [241] (250/542)
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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Miles from
'Ali el-
GharTii
90|:
96|
108|
ROUTES 8 e, f
241
\r
ENE. to m. 95^, NNE. to m. 96|. Road fit for wheels
to m. 89^, where it enters hills; thence good for pack
transport except at m. 921-931:.
Tang-i-Niaz, 20 yds. wide, with dry water-course down
the centre.
The hill-country to ESE. of this point is called Marbarreh
and Shah Nachir: 'Marbarreh' was a point on the
Russians' route in May, 1916; it is said that it would
make a good hill-station (alt. 4,900 ft.). According to
Force ' I)' Route Report the distance from Marbarreh
to Deh Bala is 11 m.
Cham Abadi: small permanent settlement. Abundant
water from the Ab-i-Chamil.
From here to Deh Bala the directions are: NE. to m. 100^,
NNE. to m.
ioii,
E. to m. 1024; thence NNE. The
road is impassable, as a whole, for wheels, and difficult
for pack transport in the stony Tang-i-Khurnuk (or
Khuradan) in first 4 m., and at m. 105-| for \ m. before
a crossing of the Ab-i-Ohamil.
Deh Bala. See Boute 9, m. 116-|. That route gives the
rest of the Russians' march 9, note under
m. 116jf).
I
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EOUTE 8 £
SHEIKH SAAB—BAGH-I-SHAHIj
Authority Force ' D ' Koute Report, Serial no. 15 (September 1916).
Bagh-i-Shahl was destroyed two or three generations ago by Lurs
of the Fusht-i-Kuh. The neighbourhood, which is irrigated from the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
(Ab-i-Changulak or Changuleh), was long in dispute between
the Vali of Fusht-i-Kuh and the Turks. In 1914 the Boundary
Commission awarded it to the Turks, deciding that the frontier
should pass just above the Shehabi Head, where the irrigation
channels take off from the river (see below, p. 244). Since the
beginning of the war, however, the Vali has built a new fort near the
ruins of Bagh-i-Shahl in order to re-assert his claim.
Of the two alternative routes given below, the first (eastern),
Seyyid Mohammed, is the better going. It is passable for all arms
mes. ii
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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.
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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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