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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [419] (430/542)
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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NEJEF—RUMEITHEH—SAMAWEH
419
their relations in the holy place. The result is that the town is
H much overcrowded, and ' people are here heaped on top of one
another'. See further on Shiah pilgrimages, vol. i, p. 83.
Administration and Authorities. —Nejef is the head-quarters of a
of the same name in the Kerbela of the of Baghdad.
Before the war Turkish administration was maintained at the lowest
strength compatible with effective control: the garrison consisted of
one company of infantry with a small force of mounted police.
The Shiah Mujtahkls (see vol. i, p. 86) are numerous, and the
influence of some of them extends throughout the Shiah world.
RUMEITHEH, on the Hilla Branch of the Euphrates, 28^ m.
above Samaweh. Pop. (1908) 2,500,
River Route. —See Euphrates, Itoute IV C, ii (Hilla Branch), m. 27.
General Description. —The town is situated on both banks of the
river, and its houses are scattered among gardens and date-groves.
For some years previous to the completion of the new Hindiyeh
Barrage (1914) the productivity of the soil was seriously affected,
and the population diminished owing to the drying up of the Hilla
Branch. In 1908 the number of houses was estimated at 600, mostly
low mud huts, but a large proportion of them were deserted. There
is an old stone fort on 1. bank of river near lower end of the town.
Supplies and Commerce. —In 1908 there were 180 shops, of which
40 were then unoccupied. Animals for food and transport are kept
in the neighbourhood, except camels. At that date barley,
idhrah, wool, and hides were still being exported, and in the autumn
a good deal of business was transacted with the Arabs in the neigh
bourhood, for whom Manchester piece-goods, drugs, and groceries
were imported.
Inhabitants. —The population is wholly Shiah and, with the excep
tion of about 70 Persians, Arab.
Administration. —Rumeitheh is in the of Abu Qawarlr in
the Kaza of Samaweh.
SAMAWEH. On the Euphrates, 71 m. by river above Nasirlyeh,
near the point where the Hindiyeh and Hilla branches reunite.
Pop. 10,000 (?) P.O. T. (the line Basra—Baghdad via the
Euphrates valley passed through Samaweh before the present war).
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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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