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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [294] (303/432)
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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294
LAND EOUTES
Mlies from
Bag-hdad
1861
2051
212
216i
2311
2351
247^
Auah.
After leaving N. gate of Anah and passing for 1 m. through
gardens and fields, the road ascends to high ground
apparently by the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Rawa (authority 1889),
leaving the river, which here makes an acute bend N.
Eoad keeps mostly along the plateau, occasionally-
descending to the river bank. It has been reported
that in April 1896 a large grassy plain was reached
at 1 m. from Nahiyeh, with good grazing, but no supplies
or village. Another authority (early April 1907) speaks
of a lack of grazing round Nahiyeh. Country is not so
thickly populated as below Anah.
ahiyeh khan and zaptieh post.
Qasim el-'Assa iyeh.
The road continues due W., leaving the river, which it
again approaches at El-Qa'im.
El-Q a'im, police post with two or three mptiehs normally.
The post lies near the water's edge on a grassy plain
which usually affords good grazing. There is neither
village nor supplies. There is a very dirty khan. The
country here is sparsely populated and villages are rare.
The road now runs over low-lying ground through
out, marshy in places and with brushwood near the
river. The road keeps over the grass, avoiding the
marshes (in flood time the river overflows its banks), and
affords bad going to vehicles, the soil being soft sand
and clay (1908). About half-way to Abu Kemal one
passes from |he Vilayet of Baghdad to the of
Aleppo. Several wadis are passed.
Ruins of 'Anqah. (also called El-Jabriyeh from neighbouring
shrine of Sheikh Jabir), and large mound covered with
shapeless masses of stone.
Cross large
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
called El-Jabir. Among the other
wadis crossed between this point and Abu Kemal are
several of large size, the most considerable being the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
c Ali.
Abu Kemal.
Road (hard sand) reported good for wheeled vehicles in
March 1908. It runs through ploughland succeeded by
sparse tamarisk jungle.
Cross
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Sawab N. of Abu Kemal and strike NW.
across a broad plain between river and desert plateau.
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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)
- Arrangement
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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