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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [274] (283/432)
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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274
LAND KOUTES
Miles from
Baniyeh.
54
64
8|
94
11
114
12
12i
134
r. are
Follow stony track 10-12 ft. wide up the Serkupkan Su.
Eocky spurs from either side. The river becomes a torrent
among boulders.
Berkhoused, 50 houses, on the river.
Groves of mulberry and a few sycamore and ash trees by
the stream. Alt. 1,653 ft. The hills to the
covered with low oaks and brushwood.
Follow a narrow mule-track among large stones
boulders.
Wheat and tobacco cultivation on terraces in the hill-side.
Yalley 50-80 yds. wide ; rough stony track in the stream-
bed for a short way.
Ford to r. bank of stream, 20 yds. wide and 1-1| ft. deep
(May) over gravel.
The track is generally a good 8 ft. ledge 50-60 ft. above the
stream, narrow in places.
Craggy wooded ravine with small stream from high rugged
hills to N.
Broad easy track; cultivation in terraces dotted with oak
and mulberry trees.
Kani Benao, large spring, and village of same name
to r.
The razor-edged ridge which skirts the E. side of the valley
of Raniyeh ends abruptly here, and gives place to rounded
spurs from Qaudil Dagh. These are thickly covered
with fine oaks.
Narrow ravines in the rocky ridge to W.
Along stream-bed, winding among boulders.
Stream divides, the larger branch going N, Track follows
the smaller NW. Another track, 2 hrs. longer, leads up
the larger branch, also to the Gurmanjan Pass (see
below, m. 25-|).
Bnrzungeh, straggling village, mostly on the r. bank of
the stream (4 hrs. 25 min. from Eaniyeh).
Eich soil, cultivated in terraces. Vines, walnuts, figs,
mulberries, pomegranates.
Path narrow and obstructed with trailing vines.
Several small springs. The ridge to W. is steep and rocky,
of conglomerate and boulders, while the summit is a
perpendicular wall of rock 200-300 ft. high. Dera and
Burt Khra are other villages in the valley.
Eough steep track in and out of a ravine from the W.
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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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