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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918' [91] (100/568)
The record is made up of 1 volume (282 folios). It was created in 1918. It was written in English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish and Syriac. 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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INHABITANTS 91
Both (and especially Dizful) would be revived with a good government
in the country, with the construction of the projected railway from
the Shatt el- Arab to Dizful, and with the further exploitation of the
neighbouring oil-fields.
AJiwaZ'Naziri ( t ,000) has importance as being at the head of the
lower and easier section of the navigable part of the Karun, which
is divided from the upper section by the Ahwaz rapids. Ahwaz is
the starting-point of the Lynch route over the Bakhtiyari mountains
to Isfahan.
'The Persian Highlands adj
In the Kuhgalu country, in the Bakhtiyari country, in the south
eastern corner of Luristan, and in the Pusht-i-Kuh there are nomadic
or semi-nomadic tribes moving to and fro, according to the season,
between the higher and the lower pastures. In the western part of
the Kirmanshah province there is a certain settled population, of
late reduced in prosperity and numbers by insecurity here and in
the rest of Persia.
Kirmanshah town (40,000) is outside our area, but may be
mentioned here as the eastern end of the main highway from
Mesopotamia into Persia, whence important routes radiate to north,
north-east, and south-east. Along the Baghdad road a number of
small towns or large villages occur on Persian territory. The most
important of these is Qasr-i-SJnrm (5,000), near the Turkish frontier.
Upper M
y Bural Population. —A scanty rural population is spread out over
(tl tlie hill-country, varying in density according to the soil, the water-
supply, the extent to which the inhabitants have suffered from their
g neighbours or the Government, &c. The fertile upland plain of
^ Diarbekr and the comparatively secure plateau of the Tur Abdin
j have maintained a fair number of settled inhabitants, but the former
, area —lowland of Diarbekr—did not before the war contain
' ■ nearly as large a population as it might be made to support, and the
1 ' formerly considerable Armenian element was much reduced, if not
i almo . st annihilated, in 1915. As regards central Kurdistan, estimates
1 published in 1891 represent the eastern part of the country (along
:i the Zab valley and towards the Persian frontier) as more thickly
populated than the western, but the figures for the eastern districts
(amounting to about 250,000 for the part of the sanjaq of Hakkiari
within the limits of our area) were probably too high. It is true.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Naval Staff, Intelligence Department: November 1918). This is an updated and expanded edition of A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: August 1916) (IOR/L/MIL17/15/41/1). This is an introductory volume containing matter of a general nature giving an account of conditions in Mesopotamia, for the most part as they were before the First World War.
The volume includes a note on official use, a title page and 'Note'. There is a page of 'Contents' that includes the following chapters and sections:
- Chapter 1: Boundaries and Physical Features;
- Chapter 2: Climate;
- Chapter 3: Minerals;
- Chapter 4: Fauna and Flora;
- Chapter 5: Hygiene;
- Chapter 6: History;
- Chapter 7: Inhabitants;
- Chapter 8: Religions;
- Chapter 9: Administration;
- Chapter 10: Irrigation of Irak [Iraq];
- Chapter 11: Agriculture and Land Tenure;
- Chapter 12: Commerce and Industry;
- Chapter 13: Currency, Weights, and Measures;
- Chapter 14: Communications and Transport;
- Vocabularies;
- Index.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (282 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in numbered chapters. There is a contents page and an alphabetically arranged index.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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'. of the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:556, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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