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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [127] (136/432)
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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3
THE EUPHEATES—KOUTE IV G
127
Left Bank
Katneh on 1. bank of the Khabur E. mouth (here 50 yds.
wide) at its confluence with the Euphrates. A ferry crosses
to Buseireh. This was an inferior boat ferry in 1910,
which would not take loaded animals. Bricks were then
being gathered from Buseireh ruins with a view to building
a bridge.
Khabur Kiver, an important tributary, 80-100 ft. wide
above its mouth.
Buseireh., zaptieh post (15 men). Extensive ruins lie in
the angle between the Euphrates and the Khabur. Here is
the ancient site of Circesium, a frontier station of the Eoman
Empire, and a place of some importance in the Middle
Ages under the name Karkislyeh. In the SW. corner of
the ruins is an Arab village, or fixed encampment, of about
800 persons. Together with the villages up the Khabur it
forms a nahiye under the Ka of Achara, with a population
of 6,000 Sunnis. In 1890 there were 18 villages or more,
with cultivation of maize, corn, barley, and sesame. The
live stock is mainly sheep (about 20,000 in 1890).
2 Bureihah villages.
1 Burairideh village.
4 Settlement and cultivation, apparently just above the
lower end of a dry channel which takes off from the present
1. bank about *15 m. farther up. It is a former bed of the
river lying to E., all dry save for occasional pools. Four
dry cross-channels run from the present 1. bank to this old
bed. By the change in its course the river has left a stretch
of low alluvial ground, thinly populated, and irrigated in part
by wheels. On higher ground to the E. of the old channel
are occasional mounds, marking former villages.
3 El-Jedid, villages,
H
1
2
1
2
1-| Former bed of river (see m. 169-1, above) apparently takes
off about here.
Inter
mediate
distance
Miles
9i
" J 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.
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- 1 volume (214 folios)
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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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