'Kurdistan and the Kurds'

Content

The file consists of a publication concerning Kurdistan and the Kurds. Produced and published by the General Staff, India, and printed in Mount Carmel, Palestine. It provides an edited collection of information based on the reports of military and political officers Captain C F Woolley, and Major Edward Noel (dated c 1919), and a paper written by Sir Mark Sykes in 1908.

It is divided into the following sections:

• Kurdistan and the Kurds - including boundaries, topography, and its inhabitants;
• the Kurdish tribes - including their locality, rough numbers, character, prominent families, and allegiances;
• Kurdish tribes outside Kurdistan - between Erzingan [Erzincan] and Sivas and in the neighbourhood of Marash [Kahramanmaraş], in Anatolia Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey. , and in Syria;
• the Kurdish Movement for independence - history, origins, and causes;
• additions and corrections.

Also includes one map on folio 61: 'KURDISTAN AND THE KURDISH TRIBES'.

Extent and format

1 file (59 folios)

It is grouped into

'KURDISTAN AND THE KURDISH TRIBES'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/22, f 61

Arrangement

The file consists of a single publication. A contents page is at the front of the volume (f 2).

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio, with 61, which is a folded map attached to the outside back cover; 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.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/MIL/17/15/22

Former external reference(s)

K 13

History of this record

Date(s)

1919? (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Military intelligenceKurdsTribes

Places

Kurdistan

People & organisations

General Staff Branch, India

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