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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [141v] (287/530)
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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278
LAND EOUTES
Miles from
Jeziret-
ibn-
Omar
23
28
32
34
35i
39i
40|
44
51
561
57
601
66
Narrow track among boulders. The country hereabouts
on either side of the road for some miles is very stony,
and so boggy after heavy rain as to be impassable.
Selakuu, m. r. Small Moslem village. Follow an easy
track over the plain, crossing a small stream ; abundance
of good grass on the plain (December) for sheep-grazing.
Fertile soil, but little cultivated.
Cross a deep rocky ravine. Country much cut up by
ravines running E. towards Tigris.
Midih, a large Jacobite village of 130 houses surrounded
by much cultivation. It lies on the side of a deep, dry
gorge ; oak woods.
Koad now is an easy and well-marked track, 16 ft. wide,
through an open, broad, and almost level cultivated
valley.
'Araban. Christian village. Country now becomes more
stony.
Deir Mashimun, 1. This is a ruined monastery.
Basebrina. Christian village with several monasteries.
From here a track goes over a rolling plateau, passing Khaltan
(6 m.), Zakharan (9| m.), Gundik (12 m.), to Kerboran (20 m.).
Water scarce.
To Basebrina from Midiat was found a very difficult stage
in 1885, and the pace of the mules on the march from
Midiat was from 1-| to 2i m. p.h.
Kefir Bey, small village, r. Moslems and Jacobites. Some
vineyards.
Deir el-Ahmar, Jacobite monastery in a ravine. Cross
a series of winding ravines by a bad track. Subsoil
porous limestone. Scrub oak on steep and intricate
hills.
Sheikh. Khan, a few huts on isolated hill to 1.
Difficult track among boulders and ridges for a short way,
and then a rocky path winding up and down.
Muzeizeh, 50 good two-storied houses, to r. Good grazing
in spring. Thence over undulating, country:- hills
sparsely covered with oak scrub. In the bottom the
track is easy over cultivated land, but narrow, steep,
and rough over the ridges. There are no streams in the
valleys.
Midiat (alt. 3,800 ft.).
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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'.
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- 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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