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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [258v] (521/738)
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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SAMARIA (INCLUDING CARMEL)
well as quarries being used for this purpose. Much charcoal
is (or was) produced in the wooded valleys of the fringe of
Carmel ; most of it finds its way to Haifa for use and export.
The oil-pressing industry is carried on mostly at Haifa (see
p. 491 f.), but there are also small presses in various scattered
localities, in caves or in the cellars of houses. The making
of earthenware pots for domestic purposes is a Druse
industry carried on mainly at Daliyeh. Mats are made by
women at Tireh and other small villages in or near the plains.
The material used is halfa grass and various kinds of rushes
found in the swamps round ‘Athlit; the mats are woven
with a shuttle, and not plaited as is usually the case else
where.
Inhabitants
Population .—^According to Von Mulinen, the total popula
tion of the various town and village communities of the
Carmel area, excluding the town of Haifa, in 1905 (when
a more or less reliable official census seems to have been
taken), was 10,893. Of this number, 8,374 represents the
native population of Mt. Carmel, 1,193 that of the coastal
plain, and 1,326 that of the Khashm.
The main populous centres of Carmel, excluding Haifa and
the German Carmel territory around Carmelheim, are the
following :
Beled esh-Sheikh, at the foot of the slope of Carmel, about
4 miles SE. of Haifa ; pop. 350.
Yajur, 1 mile SE. of the above ; pop. 153.
‘Usufiya, or ‘Esfiya, on the Carmel ridge, almost due S. of
Yajur ; pop., including the dependency of Jelamet el-‘Asafni,
595.
Daliyeh, about 2 miles SSW. of the above; pop., including
the dependency of Jelamet el-Mansurah, 744.
Umm ez-Zeinat, about 4 miles SSE. of Daliyeh ; pop.
630.
Tireh, at the western foothills, N. of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Musrareh ; pop.,
including dependent villages, 2,435.
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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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