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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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184
INHABITANTS
Their original home was Kerak ; owing to a series of dis
putes with their neighbours they decided to emigrate and
obtained permission from the Turkish Government to repeople
a ruined city. The first tribe which thus emigrated was the
‘Azeizat; they placed themselves under the protection of
the Hama’ideh, and were presently followed by two other
Christian tribes. It appears that their migration gave great
offence to their former neighbours, who however were unable
to make their resentment felt owing to the protection which
the tribes now enjoyed.
Minor cases of migration, confined to individuals or to
families, are brought. about by blood-feud, the Bedouin
institutions rendering absence for three generations necessary
before the feud can be allayed. Similar effects are produced
by the Bedouin custom of punishing certain offences by
permanent outlawry.
The growth of the .Jewish population of Palestine in the
nineteenth century, and down to 1914, can be more exactly
estimated. In 1839 the Jew's of Palestine were reported to
number betAveen eleven and thirteen thousand. In 1880 they
are estimated to have numbered about 35,000, in 1900 about
70,000 and in 1910 about 86,000. This last figure is probably
an over-statement. Ruppin, from whom it is taken, after
wards gave 85,000 as the number of the Jewish population
just before the war. Beyond the borders of Palestine the
largest Jewish communities are found in Aleppo (15,000),
Damascus, (10,000), and Beirut (5,000)4 In 1839 the Jews
of Damascus were reported unofficially to number 5,000 and
in 1873 the official estimate of the Jews of Aleppo was 5,000.
Possibly in both cases women and girls are not included.
The Jewish populations of Safed, Tiberias, and Hebron are
given by Ruppin (for 1914) as 8,000, 4,000, and 1,000 respec- 1
1 The figures of 1839 are those of a Commission of the General Assembly
of the Church of Scotland. The other figures, up to this point, are from
A. Ruppin (Jews of To-day, 1913, and Syrien als Wirthschaftsgebiet, 1917).
Probably 3,000 would be more accurate than 5,000 for the Jewish population
of Beirut.

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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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'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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