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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [97v] (199/738)
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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188
INHABITANTS
of shops, or to railway stations. The Syrian, it is asserted,
is better at this business than any other race ; he is able to
carry a weight of eighty kilogrammes on his back. This
faculty is attributed in part to the primitive character of the
appliances in Syria, where work is done by human beings
which in more developed countries is accomplished with the
aid of cranes and the like. When the numbers of the immi
grants increased and there were as many as two or three
hundred in a place, the more talented opened shops, or even
factories, and organized labour, employing the others in
various capacities ; thus the Syrians for a time formed close
corporations. At a third stage they took to obtaining
possession of forests or agricultural lands, and cultivating
them like ordinary proprietors. Whereas then, in the two
former periods, the Syrian immigrants had been regarded as
birds of passage by the natives of Argentina, it was now
recognized that they meant to remain, and this was confirmed
by frequent intermarriage and the adoption by the Syrians
of the customs of the country.
This new departure was of value to the immigrants in two
ways. First it enabled the settlers to acquire wealth to
a degree which would not have been possible to them as
traders ; secondly it had the effect of uniting them more
closely to the land of their adoption ; though many still
made a point of retaining the customs of their native land
in their new conditions.
Probably the history of the Syrian colony in Argentina
does not differ seriously from that of the colonies in other
countries which are open to immigration on a large scale.
So a
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
from the U.S. says ‘ in England and far more in
America the Syrian is a familiar figure ; we know him chiefly
as a
factory
An East India Company trading post.
hand or vendor of small needlework ’.
The degree of absorption of the emigrants in the country
to which they have gone is very variable ; in general the
number who return, especially to Lebanon, is very great.
In almost every village returned wanderers are found who
speak English. The large number of Arabic newspapers and
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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)
- 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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