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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [270] (279/432)
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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270
LAND EOUTES
There are good camping-grounds, with wood and water plentiful
along the Alaneh Dereh, especially about Balassan (m. 281).
A mobile force, such as mounted infantry unhampered by pack-
animals or guns, could do it comfortably in two days, halting in the
Alaneh Dereh.
Rowanduz. Direction SW. Track rough, paved with
cobble stones.
Serderiyeh. Pass? If correctly placed, this cannot he
identical with the pass mentioned under the same name
in Boute 45 a, m. 83^.
KaniMiur, 60 houses of Rowanduz Kurds on r.
The Kalant Sn in a deep gorge on 1.
The track descends into a valley where two streams meet
and follows that on the r., the Nergir Chai, up a narrow
rocky gorge, well wooded. Ascent steep and difficult.
Enter an amphitheatre of perpendicular cliffs and ascend
a shaly spur covered with oak scrub.
Bejan Pass, 5,325 ft. Long descent begins. Oak forest
on the hill-sides. The pass is very difficult in places
and hardly passable for pack-animals.
Bejan Qal'ah., ruins of a large mud fort, on 1.
Cross a valley and descend along flat stony spur among
oak trees.
Reach the Alaneh Bereh and turn 1. round a spur.
Mill and shrine. Cross a swift stream in a rocky bed,
the Bila Sn (unfordable November 1902), by a wooden
bridge on three stone piers 15 ft. by 2 ft., 10 ft. above
the stream.
Track now runs roughly S. parallel to the general direction
of the Alaneh Dereh. Cross a succession of sparsely
wooded spurs running from the E/arek Bagh.
Pass through a ziyaret and burial-ground.
Benawi, about 20 houses of Haruti Kurds (alt. 3,900 ft.).
Descend towards the centre of the valley across spurs.
Oaks give place to stony fields.
Tarawa, small Haruti village m. to 1.
Track from Khan-i-Batman joins the present track here.
Skirt the steep, bare hills which enclose the Alaneh Dereh
on the W. A track to Shakhlawa (about 7 hrs.) leads
across a depression in these hills.
Sartikan, village of Haruti Kurds, 1 m. to 1.
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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)
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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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