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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [337] (346/432)
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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17 i)
1954
KOUTE 54 337
Miles from
Deir ez-
Zor
between 1,200, and 1,500 most of whom are Moslems.
There are, perhaps, 500 to 600 Jacobite Christians,
having their own priest and church. Christians and
Mohammedans live very peaceably together. There is
a mosque with minaret. There are 16 wells with abun
dant water. Potash is manufactured here and sent to
Damascus. Time from "Ain el-Beidha, 9ihrs.
From Qaryatein there are tracks:—
(1) The route detailed below to Damascus by Nabq.
(2) To Homs. See Route 58 a, m. 64.
(3) To Damascus by Quteifeh.
This track runs SW. through treeless and uninhabited country in
which no water is to be found till 'Atneh is reached, 88 m. from
Qaryatein. 3 m. farther on is Jerud, a village of 2,000 inhab
itants in a fertile and well-cultivated plain, with large salt
marshes near. After another 7i m. Rnheibeh. village is passed,
where there are remains of substantial masonry aqueducts, and,
2 m. farther on, Quteifeli, on the Homs—Damascus road, which
is then followed.
(4) Cross track to join route (i) from Tadmor to Damascus.
This was followed by a traveller in 1898 in order to avoid robber-
bands of nomads and is not a regular track. It runs ESE., rising
fairly steeply on to a plateau, passing a ruin on the edge 'of the
plateau and reaching a chalk ridge called Jebel el-Hufeir, in
the neighbourhood of which, to E. of the track, there is said to be
water. The track then turns in a southerly direction over fairly
level ground between hills, gradually changing direction to SW,
and reaching Bir Atou '1 Hayayeli, where there are several large
deep wells, at about m. 30 from Qaryatein. From there the
direction again changes to SE. to Bir Zobeideh, about 10 m.
farther on. See route (i), m. 191 above.
A motor has been used hence to Damascus; exact route
not specified.
Irack runs TV. across the plain on leaving Qaryatein.
1q 3 Pass a ruin said to have been formerly a military post,
iqai ^' ross an ancient aqueduct.
oao ^ scen d from the plain of Qaryatein to a plateau.
Several peaks to the 1., about 1,000 ft. above the plain,
the beginning of a range which gradually approaches
the track.
08 | Mahin village with spring and brook on the W. side.
The water tastes slightly of sulphur. About 3| m. N. of
Mahm there is a
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
with a spring of good water.
mes. m v
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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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