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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [142v] (289/738)
The record is made up of 1 volume (365 folios). It was created in 1919. 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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driven by motor power. In Jaffa in 1912 there were ten mills
driven by steam power and in the same year five in Gaza.
The number of mills equipped with European machinery is
steadily increasing. They are driven by steam engines or
petroleum motors or gas engines. The largest in the country
are two in Beirut, which are capable of grinding together
40,000 kilos daily. Steel rollers are exceptional even when
European machinery is used. The mill-stones are generally
made of hard basalt from the Hauran.
A large amount of European flour is imported. It is of
better quality than the Syrian product and sells at a higher
price. The native wheat, being harder than that from which
European flour is made, Squires expensive machinery to
grind it as finely. On the other hand, it is well suited for the
manufacture of macaroni and is exported to Italy for this
purpose. There are macaroni factories in Jaffa, Jerusalem,
and Beirut.
Starch is made in small factories in Damascus and Aleppo.
In Damascus there are about thirty such factories with
2-6 hands in each ; in Aleppo there are twice as many. The
starch is used in the making of native food stuffs. Some is
also exported.
Burghul is wheat which is boiled before being milled. It
supplies a favourite Syrian food and is exported to Egypt
and to parts of the Turkish empire, as well as to South America
(for Syrian settlers there).
The industries based on the cultivation of the olive tree
are amongst the most important in Syria. The annual
production of olive oil of all qualities is reckoned by Weakley
(on a two years’ average) at 17,450,000 oqqahs (22,000 tons).
Of this about 5 J million oqqahs are produced in Palestine, about
6 millions on the remainder of the Syrian coast and in Lebanon,
and about 5| millions in the north. The yield of the vilayet
of Damascus, which is substantial, is apparently not in
cluded in these figures. The proportions of each district vary
Olive Oil and Soap
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Admiralty handbook regarding Syria (including Palestine) 'to as far north as the River Orontes and a line Antioch-Aleppo-Meskeneh. For details of the part of Syria beyond this line reference must be made to the Handbook of Asia Minor , Vol. iv, Part 2 (C.B. 847 C).'
'Contents. Chapters:
- I. Boundaries and Physical Survey, p 9 (folio 7)
- II. Climate, p 24 (folio 14v)
- III. Minerals, Flora and Fauna, p 93 (folio 50)
- IV. Military History, p 109 (folio 58)
- V. Inhabitants, p 175 (folio 91)
- VI. Turkish Administration, p 236 (folio 121v)
- VII. Agriculture, p 252 (folio 129v)
- VIII. Industry and Trade, p 276 (folio 141v)
- IX. Currency, Weights and Measures, p 318 (folio 162v)
- X. Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 325 (folio 166)
- XI. Country East of Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 344 (folio 175v)
- XII. Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, and Damascus Plain, p 357 (folio 182)
- XIII. River Systems of Northern Syria, p 395 (folio 201)
- XIV. Judea and the Southern Desert, p 427 (folio 217)
- XV. Samaria (including Carmel), p 472 (folio 239v)
- XVI. Galilee, p 515 (folio 261)
- XVII. Haurān and Jaulān, p 556 (folio 281v)
- XVIII. 'Ajlūn and Northern Belqa, p 580 (folio 293v)
- XIX. Southern Belqa and Ardh el-Kerak, p 612 (folio 309v)
- XX. El-Jibāl and Esh-Shera, p 636 (folio 321v)
- XXI. The Ghōr (Jordan and the Dead Sea); and Wādi 'Arabah, p 645 (folio 326)
- Appendix: Conventional Spellings, p 668 (folio 337v)
- Index, p 669 (folio 338)
- Plates, p 725' [missing]
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (365 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a contents page (folio 6) and an index (folios 338-365).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 367; 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. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence. The volume originally contained fourteen plates showing maps, bound into the back of the volume. These are now missing; details of the plates can be found at folio 5v.
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- 'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919'
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