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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [251] (260/432)
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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V
EOUTES 38, 39
251
Summit of spur (alt. 1,760 ft.). Fine view of plain of
Kaniyeh and Marga.
Turbeh, 100 well-built houses. Water from a large spring.
Eich gravelly soil; wheat cultivation and orchards.
Pai Euh, large village in orchards and vineyards, on
opposite bank of the Zab where it enters the Tang-i-
Sheikh Ismail.
Easy broad track with gradual descent.
Marga, 200 houses on the lower spurs of Kurkur Dagh
is 10 m. to the E. It is the seat of a Mudir under
Qal'ah Dlzeh. Large mound and ruins in plain below it.
Koute to Banah (48 m.), difficult up to Banah Su.
Eeach plain, the river 1 m. to r. Good grass; soil a rich
loam. No trees.
Cross small stream from 1.
Chailasura, 30 huts, ^ m. distant on 1. bank of the
Lesser Zab, here 150-200 yds. wide with rapid current.
Track skirts the river.
Broad track, trending away from the river. Orchards and
cultivation on the upper slopes of the Kutsrut Dagh.
Low oak scrub.
Ford the Klmdran Eiver, 60 yds. wide, 3 ft. deep. Swift
current. Probably unfordable in h.w.
Some huts ; irrigation channel Oft. wide.
Numerous mounds in this neigbourhood.
Quru Shina on the r., 40 poor Kurdish huts.
The Lesser Zab is now 1 m. to the r.
Some rice cultivation. Track swampy in places.
Pass Bazmnsian, 40 huts, near a mound.
Some irrigation cuts.
20 huts to r., by a mound.
Pass Gulek, 60 huts, to 1.
Rauiyeh, 300 houses.
ROUTE 39
KOI SANJAQ—SULEIMANIYEH (63^ M.)
■Authority : — Military Report on E. T. A., vol. iv, 112 (report of 1886).
The main track to Suleimaniyeh keeps SE. over open country
along the foot of the Heib es-Sultan Dagh, which lies to the E., and
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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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