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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [19] (28/432)
The record is made up of 1 volume (214 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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RIVER ROUTES
THE TIGRIS AND LESSER ZAB
ROUTE HID
BAGHDAD—SAMAEEA |89i M,|
Authorities'.—Military Beport on E.T.A,, vol. iii, 1904 (report of 1892) ; Lorimer,
Report on a Tour in
Turkish Arabia
A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
and Kurdistan, April-May 1910 ; and other
sources of information.
Between Baghdad and Samarra (* 89^ m., t74m.) the course of the
Tigris leads first in a general N. direction (as far as Ahmad el-Fayyadh
m. 56) and thence generally WNW.
The River. —In this section of its course the width of the river
varies very considerably. Where it flows in one channel its breadth
seems to be about 300-500 yds. It is broadest from bank to bank
where it breaks up into several channels passing between the
numerous islands which occur in successive groups above the tract
of Ba'rureh on the 1. bank (see m. 68| and foil.). The rate of the
current past these islands is said to be about 4^-3f m.p.h. From
Baghdad to the islands the bed of the Tigris is mud ; at the islands
it is shingle with outcrops of conglomerate at El-Qanatlr (m. 77^);
between the neighbourhood of El-Hawiyeh on the 1. bank (m. 78) and
Samarra the bed is generally of shingle, sand, or clay, with occasional
outcrops of conglomerate forming small rapids in the current. While
islands are especially numerous between Ba'rureh and El-Hawiyeh,
they occur also between El-Hawiyeh and Samarra at various points
near the r. bank. They undergo frequent alteration by the floods in
the annual h.w. season. At Baheirdeh I. and Ba'rureh (m. 69),
Darawish I. (m. 74^), and at Tineh (m. 85^), fords passable in the l.w.
season were reported in 1910, but their situation is probably liable
to be changed by the annual floods.
Navigation. —The navigation of the river seems to present no
special difficulties between Baghdad and Ba'rureh (m. 69) for boats
of draught not exceeding 4 ft. From Ba'rureh to the neighbourhood of
b 2
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume III, Central Mesopotamia with Sourthern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, January, 1917), covering the Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallujah] to Mosul and Meskeneh [Maskanah], the Lesser Zāb, the country east of the Tigris towards the Persian frontier, and the routes running westward from the Euphrates valley across the Syrian Desert. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, and appears to be based on official and unofficial publications and maps which are cited in a bibliographical section in the volume. This volume was supplemented with corrections and additions in June 1918 (see IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/5).
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of 'Contents' which includes the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (The Tigris and the Lesser Zāb, The Euphrates);
- Land Routes (The Tigris Valley with Region to East, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, The Syrian Desert);
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendix;
- Index;
- 'Sketch Map of Routes', which includes 'City Map of Baghdad' (f. 212) and 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes, Volume III' contained in a pocket.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (214 folios)
- Arrangement
This volume is arranged according to numbered routes. There is a page of contents and an alphabetical index. There are two maps housed in a pocket.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover and terminates at the inside 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 (except for the front cover, where the folio number is located on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also has an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:422, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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