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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [23] (32/432)
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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THE TIGRIS—EOUTE HID
23
r. bank as far as the neighbourhood of Babi tract the villages are
inhabited by Hashahideh : N. of Babi are found communities of
various tribes, as Beni Tamim, the A1 Bu Hayyazeh, and 'Azzeh,
sections of the 'Obeid, Abu Handhal, and Mujammeh (the last tribal
name implies a miscellaneous origin). The desert W. of the southern
part of this route is usually occupied by Dilaim ; but the Shammar
are the predominant tribe in the interior in this region. The
Shammar were apparently in recent years somewhat more under the
control of the Turkish administration than that part of the tribe
living farther to the N. which acknowledged the sons of Faris.
Their sheikhs (the family of Ferhan
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
) had been reduced to
the position of proteges of the Turkish Government, and the fact
that so much of the land in the Dujeil district and in the neighbour
hood of Samarra is Government property seems to have given
protection to the settled Arabs against the levying of tribute or
blackmail ililiuhheh) by the Shammar.
On the 1. bank the inhabitants are chiefly Jebur, with some
Juheish, Beni Tamim, Mujammeh, and fragments of other tribes.
When the Kurds were .giving trouble their raids sometimes pene
trated as far south as this region.
It may be noticed that while the Arabs of the r. bank are mainly
Sunnis, most of the inhabitants of the 1. bank from Baghdad at least
to Sindiyeh and Jeizani (see m. 46f) are Shiah. Almost all the
Mohammedans of Samarra are Shiah.
Inter
mediate
distance
Miles
o
2
9i
^2
Left Bank
Date plantations.
Mo adhdham. Immediately above is Imam Abu Hanlfah,
See description of Baghdad, vol. ii.
Es-Saleikh.
Childayeh village.
Chaldari village.
Ferajat village.
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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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