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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [279v] (563/738)
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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552
GALILEE
Most of Lower Galilee gets its supplies direct from Haifa,
and sends its products there by rail. ‘Afuleh, a junction
station on the Haifa-Der‘a railway, in a very central position,
is becoming an important business centre. The population of
the country districts of Galilee being denser than the rest of
Palestine, the aggregate surplus products available for export
is small as compared with Samaria and Judaea (Ormesby
Gore).
Inhabitants
Population .—No very definite figures are available. Accord
ing to the estimates at the time of the P. E. F. Survey (1877),
the population of Galilee was 103,000. As to this figure,
Dr. Masterman (1909) says : ‘ These numbers may with
confidence be doubled. Allowing for young children not
included in the Government returns, the population of this
large area of 1,341 sq. miles, with its 312 towns and villages,
may with safety be estimated at about 250,000. The area
includes the whole district (kaza) of Tyre and all the coast
to Carmel. The denseness of the population by the above
estimates works out at 186 inhabitants to the sq. mile.’
Dr. Masterman’s estimates were made on the basis of statistics
collected from the Safed district (comprising one city and
39 small towns and villages), in which he found that the
population had increased from 15,530 at the time of the
survey to 34,055 in 1909.
According to Cuinet (1896), the total population of the kazas
of Sur, Merj ‘Ayun, ‘Akka, Tiberias, Safed, and Nazareth,
the exterior boundaries of which taken together are roughly
though not absolutely coincident with the area under descrip
tion, amounted to 78,197. Ruppin, 1915 (see footnote, p.458),
gives the population of much the same area as 176,919.
If Dr. Masterman’s figures err it is possible that they do so
on the side of excess.
Cuinet gives the following categories as composing the total
population of 78,197: Moslems, 30,383; Jews, 15,437;
United Greeks, 10,431 ; Orthodox Syrians, 9,176 ; Maronites,
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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]
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- 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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