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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [281v] (567/738)
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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CHAPTER XVII
HAURAN AND JAULAN
The eastern section of southern Syria includes all the
country east of the Central depression as far as the edge of the
Hamad, from
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Zabirani and the Nahr el-‘Awaj in the N.
to a line a little below Akaba in the S. Beyond its southern
frontier lies the ill-explored and almost uninhabited region of
northern Hejaz. Its eastern border, in the region of Hauran,
includes El-Leja and Jebel ed-Druz ; southward the tract
becomes much narrower and the frontier is vague, but for
practical purposes may be taken as defined by the Hajj road
and the Hejaz railway.
Under the Turkish administration the whole was comprised
in the vilayet of Damascus, the southern portion as far as the
Nahr ez-Zerqa forming the sanjaq of Kerak, all to north of
that
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
belonging to the sanjaq of Hauran.
It has been customary to divide this area into four sections :
two northern, the Hauran with the Jaulan, and the region
between N. Yarmuk and N. ez-Zerqa : two southern, the
region between N. oz-Zerqa and Seil el-Hesa, and the more
barren tract extending from the latter
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
to the Hejaz
frontier. A quadruple division is here retained, but with
one important change of boundary. It has been observed
that the high plateau of Moab, with its almost even surface,
really ends at the line of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Hesban (G. Adam Smith) ;
beyond this line, the physical affinities are more and more
with the broken and wooded country farther N.; and
when the watershed running E. from J. Osha‘ has been
crossed, it is plain that the southern side of the Zerqa in the
Belqa cannot properly be divorced from the northern in ‘Ajlun.
The following modified division has therefore been adopted :
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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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