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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [113v] (231/530)
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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222
LAND ROUTES
Miles from
Bitlis
56
57i
60^
63
68
69.
i m - to i m. in width and the stream being nearly dry
in September. By an easy gradient the road reaches a
point near
Morkogh, 50 Armenian houses, i m. to 1. at the mouth of
a rocky valley, a good place for a large camp, A flat
plain lying along the shore of the lake is now entered,
Mokrapert, a large Armenian village being passed 1^ m.'
to 1., where is a landing-place in a bay.
Pass Pagan, 50 houses, i m. to r.; beyond which a rocky
spur is skirted.
Verkunis. A ravine is crossed, with a rapid stream 12 ft.
wide coming down a wooded valley up which runs a
track to Mukus.
Follow an easy track past Hakavank on the shore, the
residence of the Gregorian Armenian Catholics of
Aq Tomar.
Pishavenk, 80 houses, on the banks of a rapid mountain
stream, 40 ft. wide and 18 in. deep in September, flowing
from the Agherov Dagh past Narekh, and bordered by
poplars, willows, ash, and sycamore. Route crosses
this torrent and, farther on, a stream in a shingly bed
60 yds. wide.
Cross a stream in a wide bed, coming from Pendaganz,
1 m. to r., 50 houses. Boute 87 a (at m. 77) joins here.
This is a good place for a large camp, the plain being
fairly level and m. wide, and water, fuel, and supplies
plentiful. The route continues along the shore by an
easy track over clay and stones and then ascends very
steeply, the track hardly being practicable for wheeled
traffic, to the summit of the Qurt Tash, whence it
descends rather steeply over a better gradient, and crosses
a large stream running N. from the Ardost Dagh, 1| m.
up which is
Vostan (alt. 5,560 ft.), 300 houses, mostly Kurdish with a
a few Armenian, scattered among gardens, where there
is a T.O., and remains of a castle. Seat of the Kaimmakam
of Qavas Kaza, under Van, and Sheikh Hamid, an
important Kurdish chief. Route 81 b joins here. The
road enters the plain of the Khoshab Sn.
Bay on 1., on whose W. shore are the ruins of a fort and the
village of Haishat. Route continues along the bay | m.
from the shore.
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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'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:262v, back-i
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