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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [‎199v] (403/738)

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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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392 LEBANON, ANTI-LEBANON, DAMASCUS PLAIN
Minerals
Good iron ore has been extracted from Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Sannin.
The bitumen pits at JTasbeva, some 30 in number, which
are the most important in Syria, have been worked off
and on for many years. They were abandoned for several
years but were worked again in 1902 and 1903. Bitumen
of the consistency of coal tar is also found at Yahmur at the
NW. base of J. edh-Dhahr. A concession was granted in
1877 to work an asphalte and lignite mine in the Jezzin
district, but the quality was so poor that the project was
abandoned. Coal is found in the Meten district; the deposits
were worked during the Egyptian occupation of Syria, but
have long been abandoned, although small quantities are
sometimes extracted to supply the silk factories in the locality.
A considerable revenue is derived from the working of
quarries.
Inhabitants
As elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire, reliable statistics of
the population of Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon are unobtain
able, and estimates by different authorities vary widely.
From 1911 till the outbreak of war there was a very large
increase in the number of emigrants (chiefly to America),
caused by the recently imposed military service, and by the
steady decline in the silk industry. The numbers of emigrants
for 1911, 1912, and 1913 were estimated at 20,000, 25,000,
and 30,000 respectively.
Weakley gives the population of the Lebanon mutesarrifliq
as 450,000. A British Consular Report (1912) gives it as
200,000; another authority (1913) estimates the population
of the province as not greater than 300,000.
Ihe figures, according to Cuinet’s estimates, are approxi
mately as follows :
Moslems (including 10,800 Metawileh) ... 30 400
Christians (including 229,700 Maronites) . . .319 300
Druses , Q snn
. 399,500

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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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Title
'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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