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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [108] (117/432)
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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EIVEK ROUTES
was being used for the purpose in 1889. This was a good
specimen of the farm-houses which occur isolated or in
groups on the river between Hadlseh and Hit. A high
wall of small stones set in mud surrounds the court, on three
sides of which are- buildings of the same material. These
farm-houses look like forts, especially as they often have
a small round watch-tower attached for watching the water-
wheels. They are in fact intended for defence against the
Bedouin Arabs. The present post is on the r. bank
of the river.
There is also a modern village on the r. bank (mainland)
with orchards. High rocky hills flank the village, and con
tain remarkable caves, apparently partly natural and partly
artificial, which serve as dwellings for the poorer of the
population. There are good and easily worked quarries:
owing to the stratification, the stone comes out in large,
almost squared, blocks.
Inland from the river, and separated from it by a high
ridge, are ruins of a large ancient town, and nearer the
river, and visible from it, are a number of small
with pointed dome-like roofs. There is grazing in the wadis
S. of Hadlseh in spring.
In 1889 there were only six boats by which communication
was kept up between the main portion of the village on the
island and the smaller portion on the mainland.
The area between the river and the bluffs varies from 200
to 600 ft., and is all cultivated.
Sheikh Hadid, Moslem shrine.
Barij Eapid. A difficult ledge, with only one narrow
passage in mid-stream. The channel bank kept to 1. in 1903
past Earij Island. This island is placed in a description of
1903 either opposite the ledge or below it, but the map puts
it 1 m. above the ledge and shows it as m. long and very
narrow and close to the bank.
Qasr Abu Ehebur, fort, close (?) above Barij Rapid.
Jolieiniyeli Island, small.
Mouth of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Ausayiyeh.
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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'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:422, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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