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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [280r] (564/738)
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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INHABITANTS
553
4,111; Orthodox Greeks, 3,282; United Syrians, 1,600;
Latins, 1,446 ; Foreigners, 737; Druses, 653; United
Armenians, 530 ; Protestants, 210 ; Gregorian Armenians,
201. These figures are here cited as they serve to give some
general indication of the proportions of the various sects of
which the population of Galilee was composed in 1896.
Towns and Villages. —Galilee is full of villages, the mean
population of which is about 500. A village of 1,500 inhabi
tants is considered a very large one and some of the villages
have as few as 50 adult inhabitants. The largest towns in
the whole of Galilee, with the exception of Safed and possibly
of Nazareth, contain a smaller population than 15,000. The
following are the most populous centres :
Safed. Pop. variously estimated at 20,000-25,000, of whom,
according to Trietsch, 1 16,000 Moslems and 8,000 Jews.
Dr. Masterman gives : Jews, 11,000, a considerable number
of whom are foreign subjects (2,500 Austrian, 1,000 French,
600 Persian, 150 British, and 100 American) ; a few Christians
(some 400 Greek Catholics, a few families of Orthodox Greeks,
and a few Protestants); and some Kurds and Algerians. Capt.
Anderson, R.A.M.C., says the following is probably a correct
estimate of the chief communities : Jews, 12,000 ; Moslems,
8,000 ; Christians, 300. About three-fourths of the Jews, he
says, are ‘ Yiddish ’ speaking and come from Poland, Russia,
and Austria and the remaining fourth are of Spanish origin ;
the Christians are mostly Greek Catholics. The W. O. Hand
book on Northern Palestine and Southern Syria, April 9,1918,
gives: Safed, pop. 20,000: including 7,000 Moslems, 400
Greeks, and a few Protestants ; the remainder, Jews.
Nazareth. Pop., according to Trietsch, 12,000 (1909), of
whom 7,000 Christians and 4,000 Moslems ; pop., according
to Ruppin, 20,000, of whom 10,000 Christians.
‘Akka. Pop., according to Trietsch, 11,000 (1909), of whom
2,400 Christians and the rest mostly Moslems of a fanatical
disposition ; total pop., according to Ruppin, 12,000.
Sur (Tyre). Pop. variously estimated at 6,000-8,000, of
1 Levante Handbuch , Davis Trietsch, 1914.
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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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