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'Handbook of Yemen' [16r] (36/190)
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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of urban rank, Zeidiyah. The Quhrah, who own Bajil,
? Obal, and Hajjeilah, important settlements on the
Hodeidah-San'a road, are in similar case.
Following up the left bank slopes of the Mur basin without
turning up the valleys of its main tributaries, the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
La'a
and A\adi Dhubawa, we are soon in the Hashid country,
which, from the descriptions given of that federation, must
be less fertile than the right bank slopes, and only intermit
tently cultivated. Probably the down-like region spreads
westward here. On the Main Ridge here lie the Hashid
urban centres, Khamir, Huth, and Qafilat f Udhr.
(3) Khamir (Khamr), situated about ninety miles east
by north of Loheiah, is a large Hashid town at a high eleva
tion on the Main Ridge at the head of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Dhibin, and is
exposed to an unusually bleak climate for Yemen. It is
surrounded by a ruined wall and is said to have a population
of 6,000, but very little is known about it, as it has never
been described by any European traveller, though one
(Glaser) has visited it. It is the present capital of the
Imam; but, after the establishment of the entente with the
Turk, it was garrisoned by Turkish troops. It has a busy
weekly market. Sheharah, the hill-fort of the Imam (also
at one time garrisoned by Turks), lies above Qafilat c Udhr,
about twenty miles north-west, in the wildest Hashid
country. These fighting tribes admit neither the Imam's
nor any other outside authority, except under constant
pressure. Sheharah is practically impregnable, being approa
ched by only one very steep and easily defended road.
(4) Huth is a walled town about fifteen miles north of
Khamir on the main road to Sa'dah. It is largely inhabited
by Seyyids and Ashrdf and is the rival of Sa'dah and San'a
in learning.
(5) Qafilat c Udhr is a walled town ruled from Huth,
and dominated by the castle of Sheharah, belonging to
the Imam, in which he spends a certain portion of each
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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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- 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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