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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [77v] (159/738)
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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148
MILITARY HISTORY
experiences on the march, and uncertainty regarding the best
plan of campaign, decided the Crusaders to pause and fortify
Jaffa. International jealousies and Richard’s personal cir
cumstances now decided the English king to open negotiations
with Saladin. These negotiations lasted a whole year, during
which time the Crusaders fortified Ascalon. The other move
ments of the army were insignificant, and the engagements
with the enemy mere skirmishes. A treaty was signed on
September 2, 1192. The Latins retained the coast from Tyre
to Jaffa. Ascalon was dismantled, and was to be left un
occupied for the duration of peace (three years). Jerusalem
remained Moslem, but the Latins were to enjoy the right of
pilgrimage, and to retain the Church of the Resurrection. In
the north Tripoli and Antioch and a certain amount of
territory beside them were left to the Latins. The great
castles of Marqab, Safita, and Husn el-Akrad, belonging to
the Knights Hospitallers, also survived the wreck of the
Latin States.
Latin Syria in the 13th century
The Latin colonies still survived almost exactly another
century. But all the time they were under sentence of death.
Western Europe had made its great effort to conquer Saladin
and had failed. The surviving cities on the coast could not
resist even a moderate Moslem power. Superficially regarded
they appear for the next fifty years to improve their position.
Minor crusades came with considerable frequency, and the
successors of Saladin made them concessions, largely because
of domestic troubles. Except for brief intervals of war carried
on by the crusaders from Europe, there was generally peace
between the Latins and the Moslems. Beirut and Jubeil
(1198), Jaffa and Nazareth (1204), Jerusalem, Tibnin, and
Saida (1229), Safed, Sheqif Arnun and Ascalon (1240), and
finally Tiberias (1244) were restored to the Latins. But no
single town was captured and no victory in the field was
gained. Jerusalem was lost again in 1244, and Ascalon and
Tiberias in 1247, and when the Mamluk Sultans united Syria
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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]
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (365 folios)
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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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- '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
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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