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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [249v] (503/738)
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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492 SAMARIA (INCLUDING CARMEL)
the factories of Haifa more modern methods of production
have been introduced. The largest, owned by a Russian
Jewish Company, was producing in 1911 on an average about
200 tons of soap per annum, and the
factory
An East India Company trading post.
has since
been enlarged and its capacity doubled. In 1913 there
was also a
factory
An East India Company trading post.
under American direction, and a smaller
factory
An East India Company trading post.
capable of producing 50 tons yearly, but the latter
appears to have been closed. The normal yearly output of
the soap-works of Nablus is 500-1,000 tons according to the
olive crop, and of those of Haifa, 300 tons. Vegetable fats
other than olive-oil now partly enter into the manufacture of
native soaps.
At Nablus there are a few presses for the extraction of oil
from sesame seed which, in Europe, is used in the manufacture
of margarine, but the bulk of the sesame crop is exported
as seed.
A small amount of cotton-ginning is done at Haifa. A large
factory
An East India Company trading post.
for the manufacture of wine bottles was set up some
years ago at Tanturah, but it has been closed down for some
time. There is a large steam flour-mill at Jenin, and a small
German iron foundry at Haifa (1913). For the small industries
carried on in the Carmel area, see p. 509 f.
Trade
Though the port of Haifa is situated in Samaria, a large
part of the trade of this district, up to within recent years,
tended to gravitate to Jaffa, finding a ready outlet by com
paratively good roads centring on that port and favoured also
by the superior and more regular shipping facilities of Jaffa.
But, during the years just anterior to the outbreak of war,
the commercial development of Haifa was steady and con
tinuous ; the construction of the Haifa-Der‘a railway, opened
for traffic in 1906, made Haifa the natural port of the Hejaz
railway, and the town immediately showed signs of attracting
shipping as well as interior produce from Arabia and Damascus,
in consequence of which it gradually grew in importance at
the expence of ‘Akka and, to a certain extent, even of Beirut.
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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