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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [106v] (217/738)
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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206
INHABITANTS
in the monastery of Qannubm, in the gorge of the Qadisha
river, but in recent years the patriarchs have spent their
summers in the monastery of Bdiman on the top of the cliff
opposite Qannubm, and their winters at Bkerki in the district
of Kesrawan. Their revenues amount to several thousands
of pounds annually, partly derived from a poll-tax of three
piastres on each male member of the church.
The parish priests are elected by the people, who usually
choose some one belonging to the district. Owing to the
influence of Rome, celibacy is becoming the rule among them.
At the monastery Deir el-Kreim, overlooking the Bay of
Juneh, there is a college of priests, known by a small red
cross at the top of the cap, who act as itinerant preachers.
The Holy Orthodox Church {Greek Orthodox) comes next in
point of numbers. Its adherents are found chiefly in the larger
towns throughout the country. It was given special recogni
tion by the Ottoman Government from the time of the Otto
man conquest, and until the nineteenth century the patriarch
of Constantinople, as its official head, represented all the
Christians of the empire except the Armenians. There is a
patriarch of Antioch whose authority extends over the greater
part of Syria (as far as Tyre and Safed), and a patriarch of
Jerusalem. Both are ecclesiastically independent of the
patriarch of Constantinople. The patriarch of Antioch resides
in Damascus. The language of the liturgy is Greek but the
people are Arabic-speaking Christians who dislike the intrusion
of Greek priests.
The matters wherein the Orthodox Church differs from the
Church of Rome are partly of doctrine, partly of practice ;
in some of both, though not in all, it agrees with the Anglican
Church, e. g. permitting the communion of the laity in
both kinds, and rejecting the doctrine of indulgence and
purgatory. The chief matter wherein the Greek Orthodox
and the Anglican communities are in agreement is their
common rejection of the authority of the Roman Pontiff.
The Greek Orthodox community, though it is somewhat
smaller in numbers than the Maronite Church, possesses a
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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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