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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [97r] (198/738)
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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INCREASE AND DECREASE
187
have also migrated especially to America owing to the
difficulties placed in the way of their cultivation of tobacco,
which for a time had brought them great prosperity. The
Government monopoly rendered both sale and purchase by
private contract risky, and while no tobacco was allowed to
be used which did not bear the Government stamp, the price
which the authorities paid the producers was insufficient to
render the cultivation remunerative. After the monopoly
had been in existence ten years, the land owned by the
villagers had been sold to the merchants of the towns, or
had become the property of money-lenders, while the culti
vators had emigrated to America.
Statistics of the total number of the emigrants are not
obtainable. In 1905, when the process had been going on
for at least thirty years, it was calculated that a quarter of
a million Syrians had emigrated during that period, about
a quarter of the whole number going to the United States,
50.000 to South America, 25,000 to Central America, 10,000
to Australia, the rest to Africa, India, the Philippines, &c.
In 1914 calculations varied from 570,000 to 1,000,000 ;
the latter figure was, however, thought to include children
born to the exiles.
For the Argentine Republic there are official figures.
According to th^se the years 1880-90 together brought some
1.000 Syrian immigrants. From 1890 to 1897 the numbers
did not exceed 100 annually, until the last year, which brought
1,000; 1906 brought 7,000 ; and 1909 over 7,000. The
proclamation of the Ottoman constitution in 1908 did not,
as might have been expected, reduce the immigration but
rather increased it; this increase being due partly to the
confusion which followed on that proclamation, partly to the
objection to the military service which the Constitution
enforced on the Christian and Jewish subjects of the Porte.
It is asserted that the Syrian immigrants into Ameiica
rarely take any part in agriculture, preferring trade. In
Argentina the original immigrants all followed this occupa
tion, chiefly taking goods to villages where there was a lack
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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)
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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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