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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [156r] (316/738)
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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TRADE OF HAIFA
305
Including coal and railway material the imports probably
exceeded £500,000 and even £600,000 some years before 1913
The following are the totals of the D.H.A. (November 1912)
for the years 1909-11 :
1909. 1910. 1911.
£ £ £
Imports 574,000 616,000 575,000
The same report gives £160,000 and £175,000 as the value
Df the exports in the years 1910 and 1911 respectively. The
exports for 1910 and 1911 were low because of a bad harvest
(1910) and war conditions. Previous to the opening of the
railway there was an import trade of less than £200,000
annually and an export trade of considerably more (British
Consular Reports).
The shipping of Haifa is proportionately much in excess
of its trade. In the period 1908-13 it exceeded that of
Alexandretta and stood next to that of Tripoli (see table,
p. 316).
For further details of the trade of Haifa, see Chap, xv,
p. 4931
Trade of Gaza
Ships call here only occasionally, especially for the purpose
of loading the barley exported to England. The annual
value of the exports varies very much, according to the
harvest. 1908 and 1913 were specially good years. Wool
and butter are also exported to some extent.
1908.
1909.
1910.
1911.
,1912.
1913.
£
£
£
£
£
£
Total exports
. 206,240
49,760
8,550
77,150
67,000
161,120
Barley
. 196,840
4,620
—
48,000
47,600
143,800
Wheat
8,400
12,500
—
12,000
730
—
Imports reach Gaza through Jaffa. Their average annual
amount in the years 1906—11 was valued at £72,000, in 1912
at £96,400, and in 1913 at £108,200.
For further details of the trade of Gaza, see Chap, xiv,
p. 456 f.
SYRIA TJ
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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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