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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [166r] (336/738)
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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CHAPTER X
JEBEL ANSARlYEH
The territory coming under this section is marked on the
north and south by clearly defined natural boundaries separat
ing it from the Amanus and Lebanon ranges. The western
boundary is the sea, and the eastern boundary is marked by the
central valley of the Orontes. The highlands of J. Ansariyeh
are distinguished as being the almost exclusive reserve of the
Ansariyeh and Isma/Illyeh, two secret heretical sects of Islam
who, like the Druses, have maintained religious and, to some
degree, political independence. Although an agreeable and
fertile country, it is perhaps the least known and least
developed of all the western provinces of Syria. By reason of
the exclusiveness of the inhabitants, and the constant pressure
of Ottoman administration, the ports have been allowed to
decay and the primitive highways afford only restricted
communication with the hinterland. The only towns of any
importance in this region are Antioch and Ladiqiyeh; the
former though steadily increasing, occupies only a part of its
ancient limits, the latter is the chief port and the centre of
tobacco culture for which its uame is famous.
Area
The limits are definitely marked on the W. by the sea ;
on the E. by the Orontes valley ; and on the S. by the Nahr el-
Kebir (Tripoli) eastward to El-Buqei‘ah, thence by the Homs
chaussee. The northern limit has been given as the gorge
of the Orontes but Lyde 1 definitely marks the boundary
some 30 miles farther S. on the line of the road running NE.
from Ladiqiyeh over a pass near Bahluliyeh, and through
1 The Asian Mystery.
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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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