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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [259] (268/432)
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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EOUTE 41
259
Route to Urumiyeh via Wazneh Pass branches 1. (see
vol. iv, Boute 68 a).
Emerge on an open down, one of the flat parallel spurs
running down from the mountains towards the Zab, which
constitute the plain of Pishder.
Ford, similar to the last, over the Wazneh Eiver or
Charawa Su. Euined and deserted village on its 1.
bank. Easy going over a flat plain gradually rising.
Cross spur 2,300 ft. high. Steep descent into a gully and
over a stream.
QaVah Dizeh. (Hamldiyeh), small village under a mound on
the opposite bank, on a spur which runs out as a sort
of peninsula, having gullies with steep banks on three
sides. Qal'ah Dizeh is the seat of a Kaimmakam and
the centre of the Kaza of Hamldiyeh. No government
buildings (1905). T.L. connecting Qal'ah Dizeh with Koi
Sanjaq but not crossing the frontier. On the mound
above the village is a fort and at its foot barracks.
Leaving Qal'ah Dizeh, descend the bank by a muddy path
to the mound. Cross the stream S. of the fort; start SE.
across a muddy plain and rice-fields.
Sereuel, small village with one good house belonging (1905)
to Baiz Agha, chief of the Nur-ud-Din Kurds.
Leave Serenel in a NE. direction, crossing a stream. Track
gradually rises over open country.
Nur-ud-Bin, large village on the 1. Pir Malik at eleva
tion of 2,300 ft., Ustiuawa i m. to the 1. in the valley
on the other side of the stream.
Turn r. and cross a succession of spurs, the road gradually
trending more S. About 600 yds. to the r. Kurd village
of Khar Abdar in a valley.
Cross a spur, 2,700 ft., and turn L, going NE. for m.
Cross a stream, down which is Shlamatte (Shalmatti) about
1 m. away.
General direction E. to Ser Desht; turn r. (SE.) again
over more spurs and valley, the road steadily rising into
the hills. Pass through oak grove with
Pass Gira, village of about a dozen scattered houses on
slope above to 1. among trees and cultivation. To r. is a
mound on which are the remains of an old castle.
The road here bends r. Good going on a flat plateau for
then begin ascent of spur, from which a
r 2
about f m.
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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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