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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [293v] (591/738)
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 XVIII
‘AJLUN AND NORTHERN BELQA
Area
‘Ajlun is bounded on the N. by the Nahr Yarmuk, on the S. by
the Nahr ez-Zerqa, on the W. by the Jordan Valley, and on the E.
by the Hauran and the Hamad. It is divided into a number
of districts largely determined by the physical configuration
of the country. On the west side of the main watershed, from
south to north, the following tracts succeed each other. El-
Me‘rad and J. ‘Ajliin are both wooded, rising to the culminating
point of the whole region NW. of Suf, and extending north to
W. el-Yabis. El-Kurah, between that
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
and W. ot-Tayyi-
beh, is at first similar in character, but at its northern edge
there begins a series of narrow interfluvial plateaux^ continued
in the next district of El-Wustiyeh to end in rolling country
sloping to W. el-‘Arab. The succeeding district, Es-Siru,
is little more than a high ridge forming part of the watershed
between W. el-‘Arab and Sherbet el-Menadhireh. Farthest
to the north is El-Kefarat, a wooded tract in the bend of the
Sherbah. On the east side of the watershed lie the following
districts. The first on the south is Beni Hasan, called after
the tribe of that name, including the tract known as Es-Suweit.
It runs N. about as far as J. ‘Ajlun, but also has an easterly
slope towards the Hamad, into which the district merges
through decreasing hills and ridges, chiefly bare, but with
single trees (terebinths) scattered here and there. Beni
‘Obeid, to the north, also named from an Arab tribe, con
tinues the long gradual slope down towards Yarmuk;
moderate hills pass into flatter country of an open character.
On the W. this district marches with El-Kilrah, on the E., its
border is, roughly, a line running NW. from the region of the
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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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