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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [74r] (152/530)
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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ROUTES 69, 70
143
Miles from
Jula-
merk
43
44i
47
49
Kirakam, Armenian village of 20 houses, m. to r. on
r. bank of the Zab.
Route then follows an easy well-defined track through
cultivation.
Valley with steep sides is crossed by an easy track. In the
valley is a stream 30 ft. wide and 18 in. deep in
September.
An easy track in the clay leads up a grassy valley. Beyond
this cross a small ravine, 30 to 50 yds. wide, with sloping,
gravelly sides, and a small stream with swampy banks.
Road skirts a deep valley ^ m. to 1.
Rassilauis, a Kurdish village of 40 houses, among which
was reported in 1901 to be that of Sheikh Hamid, a
Kurdish sheikh of some celebrity in the district.
Road goes NW. over an open well-cultivated plain.
Bash Qalah. (alt. 7,300 ft.).
ROUTE 70
JULAMERK—KOCHANNES (11 m.)
Authority : —Recent information.
General direction, N. and E. From Julamerk (alt. 5,600 ft.) the
road goes N. to a pass (m. 5|), which it crosses, and then, turning E.,
descends to Kochannes. The pass is closed to mules during part of
the winter, but pedestrians use it throtighout the year. There is
good grazing along it. Water-supply fair.
Miles from
Jula-
merk
o
li
4
Julamerk. Route passes under the N. side of the Castle
Rock, ascends by an easy clay track into the cultivated
basin in a NE. direction, following the telegraph line,
crosses a large stream on E. side of the basin, and passes
the small village of Karan on r.
Qadhi Koi, l^m. to 1. Descend fairly easily, crossing
small streams and rough moorlands.
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:262v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence