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The record is made up of 1 volume (365 folios). It was created in 1919. 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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114
MILITARY HISTORY
Syria from a base in Phoenicia. In this way Thothmes
exercised some authority as far as Euphratesia.
The next century (fourteenth century b. C.) shows a northern
power, the Hittites, ruling north Syria as far as the Biqa‘.
The Hittites were a people of Asia Minor, from which they
conquered Euphratesia and the north of Syria. Egypt still exer
cised a nominal suzerainty over Palestine and the Phoenician
coast. One of the periodic overflows of the population of Arabia
into Syria now took place. The invaders were called Khabiri,
and gradually mastered the centre and the south, where the
Canaanite towns were disunited, and succumbed in turn to
the warlike invaders. Towards the end of the century the
Egyptian kings of the XIXth Dynasty (Seti I) began to restore
Egyptian authority. Rameses II (early thirteenth century)
has left several accounts of a great campaign in which he
challenged the power of the Hittites of the north. His army
marched by land, at first along the coast, afterwards through
the Biqa‘. Qadesh, at the northern extremity of the Biqa £ , near
the modern Homs, was an outpost of the Hittites, and there
the*only battle of the campaign was fought. Details are
preserved which show that the Egyptians marched in four
divisions, that they failed to discover the position of the
Hittites near Qadesh, that the Hittite army fell on the flank
of the second division and cut it to pieces, and then attacked
the first division, which was just encamping after the day’s
march. The Egyptians were saved by the eagerness of the
enemy to plunder their camp, by the arrival of auxiliary troops
(who had possibly marched from the coast, apart from the
main army), and finally by the tardy approach of the third
division. Both sides seem to have suffered severe loss.
The Hittites withdrew into Qadesh. The Egyptian king re
turned home. A few years later peace was made between the
Hittites and Egypt. The former remained in possession of
the north, the latter retained Palestine and the Phoenician
coast.

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Admiralty handbook regarding Syria (including Palestine) 'to as far north as the River Orontes and a line Antioch-Aleppo-Meskeneh. For details of the part of Syria beyond this line reference must be made to the Handbook of Asia Minor , Vol. iv, Part 2 (C.B. 847 C).'

'Contents. Chapters:

  • I. Boundaries and Physical Survey, p 9 (folio 7)
  • II. Climate, p 24 (folio 14v)
  • III. Minerals, Flora and Fauna, p 93 (folio 50)
  • IV. Military History, p 109 (folio 58)
  • V. Inhabitants, p 175 (folio 91)
  • VI. Turkish Administration, p 236 (folio 121v)
  • VII. Agriculture, p 252 (folio 129v)
  • VIII. Industry and Trade, p 276 (folio 141v)
  • IX. Currency, Weights and Measures, p 318 (folio 162v)
  • X. Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 325 (folio 166)
  • XI. Country East of Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 344 (folio 175v)
  • XII. Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, and Damascus Plain, p 357 (folio 182)
  • XIII. River Systems of Northern Syria, p 395 (folio 201)
  • XIV. Judea and the Southern Desert, p 427 (folio 217)
  • XV. Samaria (including Carmel), p 472 (folio 239v)
  • XVI. Galilee, p 515 (folio 261)
  • XVII. Haurān and Jaulān, p 556 (folio 281v)
  • XVIII. 'Ajlūn and Northern Belqa, p 580 (folio 293v)
  • XIX. Southern Belqa and Ardh el-Kerak, p 612 (folio 309v)
  • XX. El-Jibāl and Esh-Shera, p 636 (folio 321v)
  • XXI. The Ghōr (Jordan and the Dead Sea); and Wādi 'Arabah, p 645 (folio 326)
  • Appendix: Conventional Spellings, p 668 (folio 337v)
  • Index, p 669 (folio 338)
  • Plates, p 725' [missing]
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1 volume (365 folios)
Arrangement

The volume contains a contents page (folio 6) and an index (folios 338-365).

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 367; 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 each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence. The volume originally contained fourteen plates showing maps, bound into the back of the volume. These are now missing; details of the plates can be found at folio 5v.

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Title
'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919'
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front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:366v, back-i
Author
East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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