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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [75] (84/542)
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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THE TIGKIS—ROUTE III A
75
Inter
mediate
distance
Miles
3.
4
jL
2
1^
4
Abn'l Chayah (?) tract; date-groves opposite Bitar-
bitlyeh Greek extending about 1,200 yds.
Shoal in 1915 at river-bend to N., extending from above
date-groves for 1,000 yds.
Qal'at Salih. or Shatret el-'Amareh or Jillah. Pop.
4,000. P.O. T. (Basra—Baghdad line). The town was
before the war an occasional stopping-place for river
steamers. It is divided into two portions by a canal, and
consists of brick houses and huts. It has one Sabian and
three Mohammedan schools. The Turkish Imperial Estates
Department {Da'irat es-Samyeh) had an office here. There
are some dates, and the chief local products are rice, maize,
millet, sesame, cucumbers, onions, and radishes. The bazaar
is well stocked with cotton, cloth, sugar, coffee, and tea.
The people, said to be largely of Central Arabian origin,
are nearly all Mohammedans, Sunnis greatly predominating;
but there are some 400 Shiahs, about 50 Jews, and a small
Sabian community. The Sabians here are goldsmiths and
makers of mashhuf canoes. The surrounding Arabs are the
A1 Bu Mohammed.
Qal'at Salih is the head-quarters of the Kaza of Shatret
el-Amareh in the Sunjaq of Amara; the Kaza has no
administrative subdivisions. The chief Turkish official here
was a Kaimmakam.
The town is of recent origin ; on the site was a fort of
the A1 Bu Mohammed tribe. During the last twenty years
the place has grown out of a small village through the
pacification of the country and the development of the rice
trade, of which it is a centre.
The T.L. here passes from the r. to the 1. bank.
Michriyeh. Canal, extending E. towards the Khor-el-
Azlm. It has been recently reported (summer, 1916) that
nearly half the flow of the Tigris has been passing down the
Michriyeh Canal, and it has been recommended that a
weir should be built across this. Turkish police post on N.
bank a short distance from mouth.
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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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