'Military Report on Mesopotamia (Iraq)' [9r] (22/226)
The record is made up of 200p, 18cm. It was created in 1922. 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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5
insignificant but our political prestige was badly
impaired. The punishment of the tribes and the re-estab
lishment of our administration brought security to a
large part of the district within our frontiers, but the
situation has never been completely stabilized owing to our
failure to eradicate robber bands, the open encouragement
given to insurgents by the Turkish authorities, the
atmosphere of uncertainty produced by the proposed
substitutipn of a purely Arab in place of the British
administration, and the provocative intrigues of Turkish
Nationalist agents. At present British military inter
vention is governed by: —
(i) The subjection and control of the nomadic
Shammar and Tai.
(ii) The attitude of Turkish Nationalists on the
Iraq frontier.
Until further nomadic tribes are brought under effective
control and satisfactory relations are established with the
Turkish Nationalists,'the seeds of trouble will always be
present in Northern Jazirah.
CHAPTER II.
GEOGRAPHY.
Boundaries .—The boundaries of Northern Jazirah are
as under : —
North .—From point where
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Suludjuk cuts
Aleppo-Nisibin Railway along that railway to
Nisibin, thence along
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Suwaidiyah to the River
Tigris.
West .—From point where
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Suludjuk cuts
Aleppo-Nisibin Railway along Balikh River to
Raqqah, thence by a line running parallel a few
miles inland from left bank of Euphrates to Tel
Busairah.
South .—From Tel Busairah in a straight line to
Hadhr.
East .—From Hadhr to Jabal Najmah, thence in a
straight line to Eski Mosul and Tigris.
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This volume was produced for the General Staff of the British Forces in Iraq and was published in 1922. It covers the Northern Jazirah area of Iraq which is one of ten areas covered by the volumes produced in the same series. The various chapters of the book cover history, geography, climate, natural resources, ethnography, tribes, and personalities of the Northern Jazirah. The volume also covers the communications and strategic and tactical infrastructure of the area. All of the content is produced with the aim of providing basic military intelligence to forces operating in Iraq at the time.
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- 200p, 18cm
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The volume includes a table of contents from folios 5 to 6, and appendices and index from folios 99 to 107.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 111; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Military Report on Mesopotamia (Iraq)'
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