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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [280v] (565/738)
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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554
GALILEE
whom, according to Trietsch, 3,200 Moslems and 2,800
Christians.
Tiberias. Pop., according to Ruppin, 8,000, and according
to Trietsch, 10,000 ; chiefly Jews.
Communities and Sects .—In Lower Galilee most of the inhabi
tants are Moslems (Orthodox Sunnites), Christians (mostly
either Greek Orthodox or Greek Catholics), or Jews.
In Upper Galilee new elements appear. As a whole, in the
north-west districts, the Christians are Maronites and the
Moslems are Metdwileh (Shi‘ites). Both sects agree in fanatical
intolerance of all others. The Maronite centres are Kefr
Bir‘im, Rumeish, ‘Ain Ibl, and Dibl. Of the Metawileh, Bint
Umm Jubeil, north of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el-Hindaj, is one of the largest
centres ; but the sect is in a majority all over the northern
area of Upper Galilee—at Tibnin, Ya‘ter, Haris, Haddatha,
and Khirbet Selem among other places—and in the environs
of Tyre it constitutes 70 per cent, of the population. Their vil
lages are generally mean, huddled, and poor in comparison with
other settlements ; but they have a rich and more enlightened
class residing in Tyre and Beit Umm Jubeil. Druses are found
at Rameh, Beit Jenn, El-Buqei 4 , and elsewhere. One
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
states that the Druses have fifteen settlements in Galilee ;
their spiritual head is the Sheikh ‘Aqil of Julis. Algerians
have settlements at Ras el-Ahmar, ‘Alma, Deishun, and Kefr
Sabt. Circassians live in a separate village of ‘Alma and at
other spots. Ansariyeh and Turkomans are found in certain
villages on the extreme north-eastern border.
For information as to the distribution and populations of
the Jewish colonies in Galilee—districts of Safed, Tiberias,
Lake Huleh, and Merj ‘Ayun—see I. D. 1203.
As a rule a village is peopled entirely by one sect, or at most
by two, and the several communities never intermarry.
Though the basis of separation is religious differences, there is
a considerable physical difference that enables one who knows
the people well to recognize at once to which community any
individual belongs. Taken as a whole the people of Northern
Palestine are, physically, finer than those of Southern Palestine
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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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