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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [333r] (670/738)
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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THE GHOR
659
Much of the middle Ghor is cultivated by the people of
various villages of Samaria, and a great part of the eastern
side was at one time cultivated by the natives of ‘Ajlun who
were afterwards crowded out by the extension of the Sultan’s
estates—the Jiftlilc Hamayuni. These state farms covered
a considerable total area and both Fahil and Arba‘In
were administrative centres under the mudir of Beisan, who
was the chief administrator of the Ghdr. There are other
state farms in the neighbourhood of Jisr Banat Ya‘qub and
also in southern Ghor. Although improvements were intro
duced and some experiments made, little progress appears to
have resulted in developing these lands; they are farmed out
to the natives of the .Ghor and cultivated on the metayer
system (see Chap. VI, p. 249 f.).
Both the plain of Beisan and that of Jericho are con
sidered to have great agricultural possibilities, given well-
directed irrigation and good administration. In the former,
flax was abundantly grown in the Roman period ; maize and
rice were cultivated in crusading and later times. Towards
Jericho date-palm groves stretched for miles and gardens of
balsam were farmed by the Roman government. Before and
during the Crusades, sugar-cane was cultivated, and remains
of the sugar mills still exist. Of existing irrigation canals in
the Ghdr, two, each 4^ miles long, run south from W. el-
‘Arab to Z5r el-Basha and water a tract which produces
two- and three-fold crops. Several copious springs on the
west side of Lake Huleh, the chief of which is ‘Ain el-Mellahah,
supply water for irrigating the plain there. With proper
irrigation there is no region where results would be swifter
or richer than in these fertile tracts of the Ghor. Although
the climate in summer is unsuitable for Europeans, it is quite
possible for negroes.
Inhabitants
Very few Bedouin live continuously in the Ghor. The
effect of the climate is shown in the sickly and degenerate
appearance of those who are more particularly confined to
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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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