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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [252] (261/432)
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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252
LAND EOUTES
divides this open district from Eaniyeh Plain. It crosses several
ravines trending towards the Lesser Zab. These ravines are about
50 ft. deep, with more or less difficult descents and ascents, and only
the larger of them carry water in the l.w. season. Another track
ascends the Heib es-Sultan Dagh, and goes by Kani 'Othman to
Dukhan ferry.
In 1903 Sykes travelled from Dukhan to Koi Sanjaq in 7 hrs.;
good mule-track; water plentiful.
Miles from
Koi San
jaq
o
2
64
9
11
13
16
16^
19
36
63i
Koi Sanjaq,.
Cross a stream. Track keeps 2 m. from ridge on 1. Soil
stony clay with occasional ledges of sandstone.
Cross a stream. Some wheat cultivation. Track good and
broad in places, but often merely a ledge or mule-track,
2 ft. wide, over clay or soft sandstone.
Dundur, a few huts. A direct track leads from here to
Dukhan ferry, and so to Suleimaniyeh (see Route 88).
It follows a steep mule-track past some Kurd villages
over a wooded ridge. The descent is steep to Dukhan
(20 m. from Koi Sanjaq).
Cross a stream in a ravine.
Chewashim, Kasbegi, and Eaniknr, villages at the foot of
ridge 2 m. to 1. Nomad encampments may be seen here
in spring.
Kharabeh. village m. to r.
Descend to valley of Lesser Zab. Keep down a valley with
reddish clay hills to r., and sandstone ridge to 1.
Ehanabi, on r. bank of Lesser Zab. Kaft ferry.
A track runs up the river valley from Khanabi to Dukhan, At 21 m.
pass Bogut, a Kurdish village, with a small masonry fort on the
height above the village. At 5J m. a steep, stony ascent over a
prolongation of the Heib es-Sultan Dagh. At 8 m. pass Kirkusmuk.
Descend steeply by a zigzag with a gradient of 1 in 6 to 1 in 10,
and at 12 m. from Khanabi reach Dukhan.
Track now leads over a low wooded ridge.
Ehan i-Miran. (For the rest of the track, see
38, m. 27^-0).
Suleimaniyeli.
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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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