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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918' [254] (263/568)
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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254 COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT
I. Routes from
Anatolia
Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey.
entering
of the Euph
(а) The line of the Baghdad Railway. Haidar Pasha—Baghdad,
about 1,520 miles. The railway had not been completed at the
beginning of 1918.
(i) Haidar Pasha—Jer alius via Konia and Aleppo, 950 miles.
Baghdad Railway. At the end of 1917 the tunnels in the Taurus
south of Kara Punar (645 miles from Haidar
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
) were apparently
not yet pierced for standard gauge, but a narrow-gauge line was
working here. There was a motor-road across the gap in the
standard-gauge line (Kara Punar—Geldek ?).
(ii) Jerablus—Nisibin ; by railway, about 200 miles.
(iii) Nisibin— Samarra via Mosul; by road, passable for motors,
about 300 miles (for railway N. of Samarra see p. 263) ; or by river
from Mosul, see p. 287.
(iv) Samarra— Baghdad ;by railway, about 74 miles.
(б) By the Baghdad Railway and the Euphrates valley.
(i) By railway to Jerablus, and thence by river to Pellujeh
(Jerablus—Pellujeh, 650 miles, 12-45 days by shakhtur; compare
pp. 251, 286).
(ii) By railway to Aleppo and thence by road Meskeneh and
the Euphrates valley to Pellujeh (Aleppo—Baghdad, 527 miles;
compare pp. 251, 286).
(c) Ad ana—Jerablus or Meskeneh, by road. There may be now
communication for wheeled traffic between Adana and Killis or
Aleppo via the Hasan Beyli Pass in the Amanus. From Killis to
Jerablus there was before the war a pack-road that could easily have
been made passable for wheels ; and from Aleppo to Meskeneh there
is a motor-road.
[Before the war there was a road from Adana to Birijik the
Baghcheh Pass in the Amanus and c Aintab (about 170 miles). It was
not passable for wheels in the Amanus.]
(d)From the direction of Malatia there appears to be a moderately
easy way across the Taurus by Pelvereh and the valley of the Aq Su.
This is followed by the route from Malatia to Mar'ash (before the war
a half-completed chaussee) and to 'Aintab Belveren or Mar'ash),
Killis, and Aleppo ; from which places the Euphrates is easily acces
sible by roads which either are passable for wheels or could easily be
made so (e. g. Mar'ash—Samsat (Euphrates ferry) —Urfeh ; 'Aintab—
Birijik; 'Aintab—Jerablus; Killis—Jerablus; Aleppo—Meskeneh).
[From Albistan to Mar'ash, and from Malatia to Adiaman (in the
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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.
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- 1 volume (282 folios)
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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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