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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [250v] (505/738)
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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494
SAMARIA (INCLUDING CARMEL)
and their proportions correspond in the main to those of other
ports of Syria ; but coal and briquettes form an exceptional
item, and, previous to the war, averaged 20,000-35,000 tons
annually, imported mainly for the Railway Administration.
Of the total trade of Haifa, export and import, about one-
third is carried on, normally, with France, one-fifth with the
United Kingdom, and one-eighth with Egypt. During the
period 1909-13 about 530 steam vessels dealing with an
annual aggregate of three-quarters of a million tons of goods
entered and cleared the port annually, of which 140 were
British, 115 Russian, 106 Austrian, 45 Turkish, 1 34 Italian, 1
and 28 French. During the same period, 670 sailing vessels
dealing with about 11,000 tons of cargo cleared annually.
Haifa is about two days distant by steamer from Port Said
and about six hours from Jaffa and Beirut.
A small local coasting trade is carried on at Tanturah,
‘Athlit, Qaisarlyeh, and Minet Abu Zabura, small coastal
villages south of Haifa. Of these, Tanturah, the most impor
tant, exports a quantity of wine ; as much as 1,000 barrels
have been shipped in one day in a steamer anchored off the
port, and a number of local sailing craft call here at the end
of summer. Considerable quantities of melons are shipped at
Minet Abu Zabura. Steamers occasionally call in summer at
Qaisariyeh, for melons, wheat, and barley from the plains of
Sharon.
The chief inland market centres of Samaria are Nablus,
Beisan, and Jenin. The first town and the most important of
the three was (1918) the terminus of a branch of the Tul
Keram-‘Afuleh railway. It is the meeting-place of several
trunk roads and carries on a considerable trade with the
country to the east of the Jordan. Beisan, situated as it is on
the Haifa-Der‘a railway, a centre of many good roads, and
lying midway between the most prosperous regions of Samaria
and Galilee on the one hand and Central ‘Ajlun on the other,
seems marked out as the main mercantile centre of the middle
1 The Italian and Turkish share in the shipping movement was below the
normal amount, as the Turko-Italian War fell in this period, 1909-13.
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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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