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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [344] (353/432)
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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344
LAND EOUTES
Miles from
Sukhneh
no
112
113
114i
115
117
120^
121i
123i
125
127
127|
129|
1304
133
134i
139
El-Bekkureh, ruins on the r.
Emerge on to the plain from the foot-hills of the Jebpl
el-Hass.
Khirbet 'Auuazi. ruins on the 1.
Tel Annazi. From this point Sheikh Juneid, a small
village, lies to E,, and near it to the S., Higleh Jefreh
village is about 5^ m. NE., and El-Guthin about 2 m. N.
Ruins.
Ruins called Es-Semmugelx. of basalt from the Jebel el-
Hass.
Tel Hibr on the r. Tel Abu Jeren about 5 m. to E.,
and E. of it Tel 'Agrabus, with village, and still farther
E. Tel Abu Deriheh, also with village.
Jebbul village to NE.
£1-Melluhah, ruins.
Track now good. Direction still NW. through cultivation.
Safireh. large Moslem village.
District fertile and well cultivated.
Ain^ Safireh, spring in a hollow. The overflow runs E.
Tel 'Arah village on a mound ^ m. to r.
The NW. extremity of the Jebel el-Hass is here about 3i m.
W. It is continued to the N. in the ridge called Tel
Shureib.
Tel Hasil village. Numerous villages to E. and N.
Tel Shureib village, at the foot of the ridge of that name
to the W.
End of the Tel Shureib ridge about 7 m. to W.
Nirab Haleb, small village.
Jebrin village about 2 m. to N.
Tiyareh village about 3A m. NE.
Vineyards and olive groves begin.
Aleppo.
ROUTE 58 a
TADMOR—HOMS (121^ m.)
Via Qaryatein
Authorities E. Sachau, Syrien und Mesopotam ; part ii.
There is very little water on the first stage of this route, and the
ground in places is made difficult by the burrows of jerboas, into
which animals often sink up to the knee.
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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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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917'
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