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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [140v] (285/530)
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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276
LAND ROUTES
Miles from
Mardm
particulars concerning it are available: it joins the
caravan-route mentioned in the introduction to 95 b.
Small well. Eoad descends gradually, crosses small valley
and climbs ridge, making detour to 1.
On summit of ridge, to r., ruins of Qal'ah Mir Khedreli,
a good landmark, Diarbekr may be visible from it.
On farther side of ridge is a clear pool under limestone rock.
Route now bends NW. by W. and drops sharply into a de
pression, whence it descends gently to a plain, heavy in
wet weather.
Sipiyan, on 1. of track. Good water from spring. Some
trees, and a khan. Grherb Kurds.
After a level tract the road crosses some low rising ground
and becomes less stony. Diarbekr lies due N.
Cross the Quru Chai (dry at end of June, 1907) in deep
nullah about ^ m. wide with steep sides.
Cross stream-bed, dry in June.
Sehperteh, broad stream in 3 channels in December.
Spring. Village | m. to r.
Qazuq Tepeh. The track descends to the Mardm—Diar
bekr chaussee, near bend of Tigris. Follow this road
into Diarbekr. Itoute 95 a is apparently joined between
m. 44 and m. 49.
Diarbekr.
EOUTE 96 a
JEZIRET-IBN-'OMAR—MIDIAT (65 m.)
Authority Military Beport onE.T.A., vol. iv. Route 178 (report of 1885); report
of 1895.
The tracks from JezIret-ibn- c Omar to Midiat traverse the Tur Abdin
plateau, which stretches from the Tigris on the N. and E. to Mardln
and Diarbekr on the W. and Nisibin on the S. On this last side it falls
steeply to the plain of the Jezlreh. The summit of the plateau is
a stony down country interspersed with numerous oak woods.
Water is scarce outside the villages and monasteries, where the
supply comes largely from pools fed by winter rains and snows.
Most of the plateau is very thinly populated. The inhabitants
are mainly Jacobite Christians, and there are numerous Jacobite
monasteries {deirs). The country has been in a state of unrest during
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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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