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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [164] (173/432)
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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164
LAND ROUTES
Miles from
Baghdad
218i
219|
222|
224
225
2271
228i
230f
Ascend shingly slope, and strike into stony downs, keeping
NNW. from Altun Kopru. The valley and river-bed of
the Injesui now disappear to 1.
This is the country of the Dizeih Kurds. There are
villages to r. and 1. of the road. 1 m. W. by S, is
Sheikhan village (50 houses), apparently on or close to
the direct road to Mosul. Cherkuchan (20 Kurdish
houses) lies m. to E. Erbil is said to lie N. by W.
of this point, out of sight.
T.L. recrosses from r. to 1. of the road. Country open and
undulating, the track fair, rising to high featureless
downs. High ground is reached about | m. (10 mins.
ride) beyond the point where the T.L. recrosses the road:
no special features were seen from it.
Small stony hollow crosses the road from r. to 1.
Second small stony hollow.
High ground from which Altun Kopru lies to S. by E.;
Basil Tepeh, whitish mounds, to SW. in valley; Dolar
Sazeh, 40 houses of Dizeih Kurds, 1 m. SW. by S.;
Kasikhan, 20 houses of Dizeih Kurds, 4 m. SW. byW.,
on the other side of the Injesui.
(From about here a shorter track to Erbil diverges to r.
from T.L. and main road. It passes Hamzakor, Kele-
basha, Mulka, and Qara Chinaga. It is about 18 m. to
Erbil by this way.)
Depression, 100 yds. across. Qui Tepeh village, 25 houses
of Dizeih Kurds, 1 m. WSW.; Hamzakor village, 15
houses of Dizeih Kurds, 1^ m. E. by N.
Qui Tepeh mound, 60 ft. high (in April 1910 covered with
barley).
Qush Tepeh mound (at some distance to 1. of main road),
from which about a dozen Dizeih villages are visible
within a radius of 6 m. The most important are Qush
Tepeh village (100 houses, 11 m. W. by S.), Girdamala
(60 houses, 1 m. to E.), and Mirghuzar (70 houses, 5 m.
WNW.). At Qush Tepeh good and plentiful water can
be obtained from two kures. Other villages and black-
tent settlements in the distance. At a village about 10 m.
WSW. near the direct Mosul road lives Ahmed
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
,
recognized by the Turkish Oovernment as the official
head of the Dizeih. An influential Dizeih chief, Mahmud
Agha, lives at Girdamala (1910).
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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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