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'Handbook of Yemen' [15r] (34/190)
The record is made up of 1 volume (91 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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IV.—DISTRICTS AND TOWNS.
North Yemen.
Above a line drawn from Hodeidah to 'Amran, little is
known precisely of the interior. Only the town of Loheiah
and some other points on the coast have been visited
by European travellers. The highland part of North
Yemen (as here defined), forming five-sixths of the whole, is
distinguished socially and politically as having been the
original home of Zeidism and the stronghold of the Zeidi
Imams against the Turks. First we have, as lowland, a
rather sterile wedge of Tihamah broadening back from
the sea for about twenty-five miles. From the Asir boun
dary to
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Mur this is the home of the Wa'zat and smaller
Sunni tribes, and is cultivated only in patches. But as we
ascend the great
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Mur into the foothills, we soon reach
the fertile country of Hajur el-Yemen, the value of which
the Turks have recognized by maintaining in its midst the
fortified post of Qufl. It lies for the most part in the intra-
montane region, between the Maritime Range, here mainly
pastoral, and the Main Ridge, and on the right bank slopes
of the Mur basin. The best country is in Mikhlaf esh-Sham.
which is noted for coffee, hat, and fruits, and covered with
terraced cultivation. Jebel Murran, lying north of this,
is also rich coffee country; and fertility is maintained east
ward to Jebel Razah and through Hajur esh-Sham to the
Khaulan country, where, however, as the elevation increases
and the down-like Main Ridge is reached, wheat begins to
take the place of coffee and kat.
Near the mouth of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Mur lies the one important coast
town of North Yemen, Loheiah, and, on the watershed above
its northerly headwaters, the main inland centre, Sa'dah.
Between the two passes a brisk caravan trade which follows
the Mur valley for a while on its way up to Khamir isee
Route No. 14), and goes thence to Sa'dah by Route No. 8.
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- Content
The volume is Handbook of Yemen. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo , 1st edn, 15 January 1917 (Cairo: Government Press, 1917).
The handbook contains information about Yemen under the following headings:
- Area;
- Physical Character (including Relief and Climate);
- Population;
- Districts and Towns;
- Agriculture and Industries;
- Trade (including Currency, and Weights and Measures);
- Political;
- Yemen Army Corps;
- Tribal Notes;
- Personalities;
- Communications;
- Routes.
The prefatory note states that the handbook had been compiled by Major K Cornwallis and Lieutenant-Commander D G Hogarth, RNVR from information obtained in Cairo (especially about tribes and personalities) and from material prepared for the Arabia Handbook issued by the Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division.
The volume contains an 'Outline Map of Yemen' (f 6).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (91 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a list of contents at the front of the volume (f 5).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 93 on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages within the volume.
Pagination: the volume also has an original printed pagination sequence numbered 2-167 (ff 7-92).
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- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- Title
- 'Handbook of Yemen'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:5v, 7r:92v, 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