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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [323] (332/432)
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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EOUTES 50 (i-vi) 323
(v) Shedadi—Eaqqah
The intervening desert is very little known. Sykes, when he
crossed it at the end of the dry season (November) 1906, found
five permanent wells, and a population of about 20,000 Bedouin.
Shammar are among the Arabs found here.
(vi) Meskeneh—Kaqqah Tel es-Semen
Across open rolling uncultivated ground traversed by numerous
wadis. For three months in spring there is pasture, the good grazing
land alternating with stony tracts. Anazeh were found here in 1906
(see Introduction to JRoutes IV E-H, p. 94).
The following notes are taken from Sykes's account of his journey
in 1906.
Meskeneh. Cross Euphrates.
Muraibet: camp of Weldeh Arabs about 4 m. to S. from the
Meskeneh ferry. From here a day's march to—
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Dushan.
At 1^ hours from the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Dushan, an encampment of nomad
Arabs, at that time under Sheikh Saleh of Harran, a person of
considerable influence among the local Arabs, as his family keeps
also the fountain of Abraham at Ain el-Arus (see vol. iv, 132 b,
m. 601).
3 hrs. farther on, Gol Bashi, or El-Guela, a large lake or swamp,
connected by a backwater with the Belikh. Much water-fowl.
Over level plain to Tel es-Semen. (Afadleh Arabs were found here
in 1906: some cultivation in neighbourhood.) Thence over land
covered with traces of old irrigation-canals (see vol. iv, 132 b)
to
Raqqah.
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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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