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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [354] (363/542)
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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354
LAND ROUTES
Miles from
Baghdad
34
39
40|
41|
43
48i
60
Khan el-Hasweh. Here the route is 2 m. SE, of Iskan-
deriyeh village on the Baghdad—Kerbela road (see
Route 21 a, m. 33). Khan el-Hasweh stands somewhat
high on the top of a slight eminence in an otherwise
featureless country. The khan is a one-storied building
with a courtyard surrounded by 38 arched recesses used
as lodging-places. Behind these recesses are rows of
vaulted stables. Parapet wall, about 4 ft. high, runs all
round the roof. The courtyard would accommodate
100 men, and the stables 150 animals. Attached to the
khan is a village of some 60 domed brick dwellings and
two coffee-shops. A few animals are owned in the village,
but supplies, except firewood, are not to be obtained.
The inhabitants are nearly all Sunnis. The soil in the
neighbourhood is a gritty mixture of pebbles and sandy
clay. The cultivation, of which there is a good deal in
the direction of Iskanderiyeh, all belongs to the
es-Samyeh. There was a small Turkish post here.
Grass huts on r., water from distant wells near Iskanderiyeh.
Museyib Canal marked on map about here.
Another canal indicated, and some distance farther on (at
or before m. 44) a third canal. They were dry in the
autumn of 1903. These two canals are spanned by brick
bridges, and the latter is apparently the Nasiriyeh. Canal
from the Euphrates.
Khan Nasiriyeh, a deserted khan on the eastern side of
the road.
About here a small water-channel is crossed.
Khan Mahawil, khan with walls 18 ft. high on outside,
very similar to that at Khan el-Hasweh but in worse
repair. Attached to the khan is a village of about 600
inhabitants. It is surrounded by mud walls which are
10 ft. high and topped with thorns. The place is the
head-quarters of the Mahawll Nahiye of the Hilla Kaza,
and consequently the seat of a Mudir. There is one coffee-
shop and a small zaptieh station. A few animals are
available and there is plenty of fuel; but grain, notwith
standing the existence of a considerable cultivated area,
is generally scarce, being exported. On the S. side of
the village flows the Mahawil Canal from the Euphrates,
with a stream in April about 20 ft. wide by 12 ft.
deep. About 50 date-palms belonging to village on the
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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.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:374, 374a:374b, 375:530, back-i
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