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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [217v] (439/738)
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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428 JUDAEA AND THE SOUTHERN DESERT
varies greatly in width from a few hundred yards in the N.
to anything up to 30 miles in the widest part towards the S.
The region under consideration in this chapter extends from
the Egyptian frontier on the S. to Samaria on the N. and is
bounded on the W. by the Mediterranean Sea and on the E.
by the lower reaches of the Jordan, the Dead Sea, and
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
‘Arabah. It embraces two areas, treated separately below
though merging one into the other,viz. the northern rectangular
block of Judaea and a desert area, roughly triangular in shape,
continuing southward to Akaba, the whole having a super
ficies of some 7,500 sq. miles. »
Judaea
Arm
J udaea has no defined geographical frontiers either on the N.
or on the S. But, for the purposes of this handbook, the nor
thern boundary line between it and Samaria, following the
indication of Fischer and Guthe’s map, is taken as running
from near the small coast town of Arsuf, some 10 miles N. of
Jaffa, to the outlet of W. el-Humr into the Jordan, at about
lat. 32° N. The line runs somewhat S. of E. from the coast
and passes over the crest of the Judaean Highlands between
Sinjil and Lubban at a point about 10 miles N. of Jerusalem.
On the south the dividing line is considered for present pur
poses to run from
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Ghazzeh to the south-west corner of the
Dead Sea, passing through Beersheba. The extreme length of
the territory thus defined, from N. to S., is 65 miles and its aver
age breadth 50 miles, covering an area of some 3,000 sq. miles.
Under Turkish administration, the district of Judaea,
together with the greater part of the Southern Desert (see
p. 462), formed the sanjaq of El-Quds esh-Sherif, or Jerusalem.
Administered by a mutesarrif of the 1st class, it was an
independent Governorate distinct from the rest of Syria and,
nominally at any rate, directly under Constantinonle. The
whole sanjaq was divided into the kazas of Jerusalem, Jaffa,
Gaza, Hebron, and Beersheba.
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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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