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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [47v] (99/530)
The record is made up of 1 volume (263 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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90
LAND ROUTES
Miles from
Rowan-
duz
154|
158|
Enter a belt of orchards ^ m. wide, the track being 20 ft.
wide and having high mud walls on both sides. An
open plain is now entered, orchards and vineyards being
passed on 1. and some bare hills on r. ; the main road
from Oilman is met', several canals are crossed, and the
road passes through a well-wooded country.
Urmia.
KOUTE 61b
DIZEH—UEMIA (51 m.)
Via M akbishu D istkict
Authority: — Routes in Persia, vol. ii. Route 112 (reports of 1891 and 1899).
This route is an alternative to the last part of 61 a. It goes S.
of the latter and is 51 m. in length as compared with 68| m, the total
distance by Boute 61 a, but from m. 6 to m. 29 this is a bad mule-
track, whereas the other is a cart-road. The route would be almost
impracticable for military purposes, being passable only for small
bodies, who would find difficulty even with light pack transport.
In winter, operations would be impossible. Immense labour would
be necessary to construct a road, as the mountains crossed are pre
cipitous. Supplies only at Dlzeh and Urmia. Water everywhere
from streams. Some fuel perhaps obtainable.
Miles from
Dizeli
o
154
22
Dizeh. From Dizeh the road follows 61 a for 6 m. to
Qal'ah Mohammed Agha at m. 96. It then crosses the
Dizeh stream by a ford and leads over a spur to the 1.
bank of a tributary of that stream, which is followed by
a difficult, stony path to the S. slope of the
Mam dan Gedik, from which a spur leading S. is crossed
and the Marbishu district (Turkish name Uider) is entered.
The track leads down a stream in the Lake Urmia basin
by a narrow, difficult pass to
Hiyal (Eli), Nestorian village. The stream is followed
through a narrow, difficult gorge.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume IV, Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April, 1917), covering Mesopotamia north of the line joining Rowanduz, Mosul, Meskeneh [Maskanah], and Aleppo, up to Van, Bitlis, Diarbekr, and Mar‘ash. 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.
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', and 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of contents which includes the following sections:
- Introduction;
- Itineraries;
- River Routes (The Tigris, The Euphrates);
- Land Routes (Central Kurdistan, Routes between Mosul and Diarbekr, Routes between the Plain of Diarbekr and the Moutains to North and West, Routes between the line Diarbekr-Mardīn and the Euphrates, Interior of Norther Jezīreh, West of the Jaghjagha Su, The Euphrates Valley and Country West thereof, Across the Taurus between the Euphrates and Mar‘ash, and Aleppo-Mar‘ash);
- Railways (Aleppo-Ras el-‘Ain-Tel Ermen);
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Index;
- Plates;
- 'Sketch Map of Routes'.
The volume contains 15 plates, which illustrate the content of the various chapters, and 1 map entitled 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (263 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged by numbered routes. There are pages of contents, an index, and a list of plates. There is one map house 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. IV. 1917'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:262v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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