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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [218r] (440/738)
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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JUDAEA
429
Physical Features
The Central Range .—As regards ihat part of the Central
Range which appertains to the Judaean district, it has
a breadth varying from 14 to 17 miles, reckoned from the
western edge to where, on the east, the level drops to the
Ghdr. A zigzag mountainous section north of Jersualem is
known as J. el-Quds, the highest point of which is Nebi
Samwil (alt. 2,935 ft.), 5 miles north of the city. South of
this begins the section of the range known as J. el-Khalll,
around Hebron, where, at Halhul, about 3| miles north of
this town, the Judaean mountains attain their greatest eleva
tion of 3,270 ft. above sea-level. South of Hebron there is
a sudden step down to a plateau of wolds and open arable
soil some 500 ft. lower, and farther south still another step
leads to the soft white limestone, or marly region (and an
average elevation of 1,400 ft.), spreading round Beersheba
and sometimes known as the ‘ Negeb This region in turn
merges gradually into the Southern Desert.
On the west side of the watershed of the Central Range,
in Judaea, the mountainous country extends to about half
way to the sea. Its flank is rugged and steep in most part
and is penetrated and broken by deep valleys and passes.
Among the most important, enumerating from the north, are :
W. Selman, which seems to have been the principal approach
to Jerusalem in ancient times; W. ‘Ali, a little distance south,
along which runs the Jaffa-Jerusalem carriage road ; W. es-
Sarar, main affluent of the Nahr Rubin, along which runs
the Ludd-Jerusalem railway ; W. el-Afranj, also tributary of
the Rubin ; and, in the extreme south, W. el-Khalil, leading
from Hebron to Beersheba, and affluent of W. Ghazzeh.
For further details of the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
systems of the western slope,
see Coastal Streams, pp. 435 ff.
On the east side the watershed dips sharply from a
maximum height of 3,270 ft. above the sea and
an average height of 2,500 ft. to a maximum depth of
1,300 ft. below sea-level in the Gh5r —a fall of 4,000 ft.
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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)
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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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- 'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919'
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