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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [295v] (595/738)
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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584 ‘AJLUN AND NORTHERN BELQA
soiiie ;j m. from feW. to NE., with a breadth of about 6 m.,
is probably the bed of a former lake draining into W. er-Rum-
man. The rich soil of El-Buqci‘ forms fine meadow land
round the springs and ruins of Khirbet el-Basha ; the plain
may be compared with a smaller depression called Hem el-
Belqa, some miles farther to SE., between W. el-Hammam
and ‘Amman. Of the eastern part of the slope, N. of Yajuz,
little is known in detail. Where it has been crossed, between
Yajuz and N. ez-Zerqa north of ‘Aluk, it appears to re
semble the country north-east of J. Gsha‘, with glades, valleys,
and hills covered with scattered trees, and with excellent
pasture in many places. Towards the eastern bend of N.
ez-Zerqa the trees disappear and the country becomes bare,
forming a transition to the border of the Hamad. The short
south-eastern slope is bare and waterless, and without much
importance to the district as a whole. The western slope
is formed of spurs from J. Jel‘ad and J. Osha‘, diminishing
in height northwards to the low range or ridge, Dhahr el-
Meisareh, which drops rapidly towards the lower Zerqa between
iuhil ed-Dahab and Deir ‘Alla. Between the higher hills and
the Ghor, along the southern part of this slope, intervenes an
irregular line of lower hills, El-Hamra’iyeh, extending to
a point rather N. of the Nablus-Salt road, and cut by
numerous watercourses. The triangular upland between
t e above slopes is not a level plain, but is interspersed
with imgular hills. It is fertile, cultivated for cereals both
by the Belqawiyeh Arabs (see below) and by the inhabitants
o the villages round its borders, and has alwavs possessed*
importance as king on the main line of approach from Judaea
to the Hauran via ‘Amman : the high road between Salt
and the latter place crosses it from west to east. The altitude
of the heights commanding it increases from S. to N. On
the south rise Umm es-Semmak (3,179 ft.) and Khirbet Sar
(3,U0 ft.) ; on the north Jubeihet el-Kebireh (3,468 ft.) and
v ubet Khuldeh (3,586 ft.), the height of which is within
a few feet of that of J. Osha‘.
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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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