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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [114r] (232/530)
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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Hatanun, 30 Armenian houses, at the foot of low hills
on r.
Pass Paltienz, 60 houses, 2 ni. to r. Ijeave the swampy
delta of the river on 1., cross a cultivated terrace by an
easy clay track, and reach the ford at
Engil (alt. 5,400 ft.), Armenian village of 100 houses.
Ford 200 yds. below the village, 60 yds. wide and 2 ft. 3 in.
deep in September, but only 30 ft. wide in November,
the stream flowing swiftly over a hard, gravelly bottom!
A bad wooden bridge crosses the river above the village
where the route is joined by the road from Shattakh (see
Houte 81 a, m. 24^). There is an open space here suitable
for a large camp, where supplies are plentiful and water
is good, but fuel is scarce and can only be obtained in
considerable quantities by lake transport.
Beyond Engil the route crosses a canal sometimes known
as the Shemiram Su, 8 ft. wide and 4 or 5 ft. deep, by
a stone bridge, and follows an easy road across the
Havatzor plain, from which it ascends rather steeply by
a stony track.
Summit of a ridge of hills (alt. 6,200 ft.), the N. boundary
of the plain. Eoute crosses some rounded clay hills, and
a dry ravine from SE., where a metalled track (30 ft. wide)
from Van is met. Parts of the route were being 1 imnroved
and metalled in 1900.
Artaiuid, 300 houses, Mohammedan and Armenian, good
spring water. Eeported ruined in 1915: see p. 453,
Eoute crosses the Shemiram Su by a stone bridge, skirts
garden on 1., descends by an easy gradient to shore of
lake, and leaves to r. the cultivated basin in which stands
Zevistan, a thriving village.
Join cart-track from the Erek gardens of Van. Eoute
skirts the sandy shore of the lake and traverses an open
cultivated plain 2 m. from some rounded hills on r.,
and A m. from the lake on 1.
Van,
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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