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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [250r] (504/738)
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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TRADE
Up to some twenty-five years ago, ‘Akka was the port to
which almost all the grain from the Hauran, intended for
export to Europe and the Syrian coast, was directed and from
which it was shipped. On the completion of the Damascus-
Beirut railway (1896), the grain trade was diverted for a time
to Beirut ; but, since the construction of the Haifa-Der‘a
railway, Haifa has received and shipped, to the prejudice of
Beirut, much of the Hauran grain, and Damascus and Northern
Arabia now obtain a considerable proportion of their supplies
through this port.
The railways constructed still more recently in Southern
Syria—the broad-gauge Rafah-Ludd-Haifa and the narrow-
gauge Tul Keram-‘Afuleh lines—will doubtless still further
modify the trade movement of this region, and will unques
tionably affect the distribution of the trade of southern Syria,
as between the ports of Jaffa, Haifa, and Beirut. In addition,
schemes for new harbour works both for Jaffa and Haifa have
been under consideration for some years, and concessions are
reported to have been granted just before the outbreak of
war ; the extent to which these projects are realized in the
future will have its distinct bearing on the proportion of trade
which will eventually fall to each of the two ports in question.
The extent of the trade of Haifa is broadly shown in Chap.
VIII, p. 304 f. The principal articles of export in approximate
order of value are : wheat, beans and lentils, sesame, barley,
dhura, olive-oil, wine, and eggs. The wheat, derived mainly
though not wholly from the Hauran, averaged 60,000 quarters
annually during the period 1907-13. Sesame is a more local
product, the Plain of Esdraelon and the district of Haifa
producing the larger yield and the best quality of this seed in
Syria : an average harvest allows of some 9,000-14,000 tons
being exported (in normal times) to Marseilles, Genoa, Hamburg,
and Trieste. The wine exported from Haifa is produced
almost exclusively at the Jewish and German colonies of
Carmel and amounts annually to some thousands of hecto
litres. The soaps of Nablus find their outlet, to Egypt and
the
Levant
A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
, at Jaffa. The principal articles of import at Haifa
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:366v, 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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