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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [46] (55/542)
The record is made up of 1 volume (269 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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46
RIVER ROUTES
Right Bank
Pop, (1908), 4,000, mostly 'Atub, in huts. Well-built and
fairly large house, residence of Naqlb of Basra. 55,000
palms, 200 cattle, 500 sheep and goats, 20 horses, 5 camels,
42 donkeys. Between Sablliyat and Sangar is Khababi
Creek.
Sangar village, extending for about m. up river to tomb
immediately below Yahudi Creek. Pop. (1908) 1,800 'Atub.
Some of the villagers are fishermen, and there are about 20
boats. The date plantations here, though dense on river
bank, are not deep. A few cattle, sheep, and goats. Pottery,
boat-building.
Yahudi Creek, very tortuous, and village 1^ m. up creek.
Pop. (1908) 1,600. 90,000 date-palms, 100 cattle, 200
sheep and goats, a few horses. Creek easily distinguished
by tomb near its mouth.
Hamdau es-Saghir. Small hut village grouped round
two well-built houses belonging to Sheikh of Hamdan.
Mouth of Hamdan Creek. Fejat el-'Arab village on 1.
bank of creek.
2f m. up creek is Hamdan town. Pop. (1908) 11,000,
mostly Muhaisin; 30 to 40 well-built brick houses, rest of
dwellings huts. 150,000 palms, 2,500 cattle, 1,000 sheep
and goats, 40 horses, 200 donkeys ; grazing good. Between
the town and the river are a tomb and a shrine visited by
Shiahs and Sunnis respectively. It has been said that the
Kb Or "Abdallah can be reached from Hamdan by a boat
channel across the desert.
Total
distance
Miles
62
624
m
62|
63
63i
63|
64^
K
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume II, Irak, The Lower Kārūn, and Luristan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, May, 1917), covering the regions of the Shatt el-‘Arab [Shaṭṭ al-‘Arab], Kārūn, Luristan, and the Tigris and Euphrates up to Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallūjah]. 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', 'Abbreviations'. There is a 'Contents' which include the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (Shatt el-‘Arab, The Kārūn, The Tigris, The Euphrates, The Shatt el-Hai);
- Land Routes (The Region of the Shatt el-‘Arab, The Tigris Valley, The Region of the Lower Kārūn River of Luristan, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between the Tigris and Euphrates Valley, The Arabian Desert);
- Railways;
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note and List of Maps;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendices (A: Notes on Weather on the Tigris, B: The Control of the Tigris Water, C: The Control of the Euphrates Water, D: Oil-Fields of the Mesopotamia and Persian Frontier, E: Note on Mules);
- Index;
- Plates;
- Maps.
The volume includes eight plates that illustrate the volume. There are also three maps:
- 'Baghdad';
- 'City Map of Baghdad';
- 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (269 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged accourding to numbered routes. There is a table of contents at the front of the volume and an alphabetical index at the back. There is also a list of plates and two maps are house in a pocket and one is a foldout.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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 the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:374, 374a:374b, 375:530, 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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