'A HANDBOOK OF MESOPOTAMIA VOLUME 1 GENERAL'

Content

This volume is Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume 1: General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division: August 1916). The handbook contains a variety of information about the region of Mesopotamia, including its geography, economy, population, and history. The prefatory note at the start of the volume specifies that it ‘contains matter of a general nature’, while the following three volumes in the series contain ‘detailed description of the river and land routes’. The handbook comprises information about Mesopotamia under the following chapter headings:

• ‘Boundaries and Physical Features’
• ‘Climate’
• ‘Minerals’
• ‘Flora and Fauna’
• ‘Hygiene’
• ‘History’
• ‘Inhabitants’
• ‘Religions’
• ‘Administration’
• ‘Irrigation of Irak’
• ‘Agriculture’
• ‘Commerce and Industry’
• ‘Currency, Weights and Measures’
• ‘Communication and Transport’
• ‘Transliteration of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Names’
• ‘Vocabularies’.

The volume also contains three maps: ‘Administrative Divisions and Chief Towns’ (f 363), ‘Racial Divisions’ (f 364), and ‘Area Available For Irrigation’ (f 365). The volume contains a table of contents on folio 9r, a list of maps on folio 9v, and an index on folios 355-361.

Extent and format

1 volume (367 folios)

It is grouped into

'Mesopotamia. Administrative Divisions & Chief Towns. Map 1.'

4 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1, f 363

'Mesopotamia. Racial Divisions. Map 2.'

4 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1, f 364

'Mesopotamia. Map 3.'

4 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1, f 365

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside 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.

Written in

English, Armenian, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Ottoman, Kurdish and Syriac in Latin and Arabic 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/PS/20/C138/1

Former external reference(s)

I.D.1118

History of this record

Date(s)

Aug 1916 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

HistoryReligionAgriculturePopulationTrade (practice)Military intelligence

Places

Mesopotamia

People & organisations

Admiralty War Staff, Naval Intelligence Division

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