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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [180v] (365/738)
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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354 COUNTRY EAST OF JEBEL ANSARlYEH
is about £40,000. About £10,000 worth is also brought to
Homs, most of which is sent to the district of Damascus.
Of the total amount brought to Aleppo and Hama, about
20 per cent, remains in the country, 50 per cent, goes to
Europe and 30 per cent, goes to Smyrna and Constantinople.
An inferior quality called semen gharlb is brought in petroleum
tins chiefly to Aleppo during October, November, and Decem
ber. It is very much adulterated and the whole of it is sent
to Egypt (Weakley). Besides these, a small quantity of
buffalo butter is brought from the Raqqah district and sent
to Egypt. (See also p. 274.)
Industries
Weaving .—The textile products of the towns of Homs and
Hama are famed throughout Turkish territory. There has
been an appreciable lowering of production within recent years
caused by the introduction of cheap European imitations.
Homs ranks with Aleppo as the largest manufacturing centre
The cloths of Homs are dearer and finer than those of Aleppo,
and are much sought after. Hama produces only a compara
tively small amount of cotton goods. The looms, of primitive
make, are usually set up in private houses, but there are
also a great many in small khans or kaiser-liks. In Homs
there are 10,000 looms for cotton, cotton and silk, and silk
stuffs ; in Hama there are only 1,000 looms used entirely
for cotton stuffs. These together form over one-third of the
total loom power of the whole of Syria (Weakley). It is
estimated that in Homs from £200,000 to £300,000 worth
of cloths are manufactured and sold every year, from 40 to 70
per cent, of the total being taken by Egypt. (See also pp. 284ff.)
Dyes and Dyeing .—There are 22 dye-houses at Homs, 10 at
Hama, 3 at Idlib, and 2 at Harim (1910). Dye-houses vary in
size from 5 to 70 troughs (Weakley). (See also p. 287.)
Olive Oil .—There are three factories for olive-oil soap in
Idlib and one in Riha, and the soap produced from the
district of Idlib in a normal year amounts to about 450 tons
(Weakley).
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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)
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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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