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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [45] (54/432)
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—ROUTE HIE
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traces of a circular wall at about 110 paces distance.
A raised causeway runs from this a little E. of N. to
a point about m. distant.
A short distance to the SE. of this is the dry bed of
the Nahr Nahrawan (here called Nalir er-Rasasi), which
has run to this point in a general WNW. direction from Tel
Mahasil (see Boute III D, m. 60|), bends NNE., and seems to
be traceable, running roughly parallel with the river, at a
distance varying from 3 to m. for some miles.
Hawa-i-Sullat settlement: 20 houses of A1 Bu Abbas.
Bisat village in trees : 25 houses of Samarra Arabs.
Qafas Shiuas : large tent-settlement of A1 Bu Abbas,
a short way above Bisat. Here is a large enclosure, sur
rounded by the remains of walls and towers of sun-dried
brick, in a very ruinous condition.
A few hundred yards to the N. of this ruin lies another,
of oblong shape, nearly ^ m. across, with a walled triangle
to the N., in which is a small square enclosure near the
river.
Mouth of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Abu'l Aswad, a water-course from the
Hamrln Hills, lies in this neighbourhood. This
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
is dry in summer : at other times it brings water from the
hills to the Tigris. There is said to be much spring pasturage
in its neighbourhood.
Ruin-heaps of a quarter of old Samarra, marked on maps
as Eski Baghdad. This name is apparently applied locally
to the whole group of ruin-fields from modern Samarra to
Abu Delef (see m. 11-|).
The 1. bank here is of conglomerate and elevated, with
numerous water-lifts.
Sinn Yehudiyeh, a bluff, intersected by a small ravine
leading from the high plain to the river. There are several
more similar ravines to the N.
Here also is a mouth of a minor arm of Tigris, with islands
and shoals. This arm runs generally NNW. for about T 3-| m.
from the point where it leaves main stream. Along its 1. bank.
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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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