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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [296v] (597/738)
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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586
‘AJLUN AND NORTHERN BELQA
W. ‘Ain et-Teis. Below ‘Ajlun, its volume is increased by
the perennial W. ed-Deir, joining it on the S., near the
village of ‘Anjara. Its other tributaries bring it little
water except in winter. The longest on the northern slope
rises N. of ‘Ajlun, passes N. of Qal‘at er-Rabud, and then bears
S., joining the main stream, as W. el-Emzeirlb (Muzeirib), a
little below Kefrinji. Two long southern tributaries, rising S.
of this village, run some miles in a westerly direction, joining
W. Kefrinji before it narrows for its passage through the hills
into the Jordan Valley. At the outlet of W. Rajib into the
Ghdr there are the remains of an arched aqueduct; a channel
diverted from the 1. bank in the hills turns two mills before
its issue S. of Faqaris.
W. el-Ydbis, of which the chief upper branches rise on the
watershed N. of Suf, in the neighbourhood of Ras el-Imnif,flows
almost W., entering Jordan about 9 m. N. of the mouth of
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Kefrinji, the upper branches of which are quite close to
its own. Its basin is widest S. of its upper and middle course,
where it ramifies through three long tributaries, W. el-Miqwas,
W. Ba‘un, W. ‘Abd el-‘Aziz, each with numerous local names;
but these bring it little water except in winter. Farther W.
its valley narrows, the stretch of hills between its lower course
and that of W. Kefrinji draining direct to Jordan from a
water-parting which runs N.-S. The chief wadis of this
subsidiary catchment-area are W. Sufara and W. Seleikhat
(El-‘Asi), between which lies the village of El-Khirbeh, and to
the north, W. el-Libbeh, none of them carrying perennial
w*ater for any distance. W. el-Yabis has a perennial stream
from ‘Ain el-Beidha about 1-| m. above the village of ‘Arjan.
On the r. (N.) bank, W. el-‘Ain and W. Murabba‘ come down
between the villages of Jedeideh and Kefr Abil, but neither
has a permanent stream. In its lower part W. el-Yabis runs
in a deep gorge with sides which are often precipitous and of
great height.
W. Siqldb begins on the main watershed not far N. of TTT 1-
Yabis. As in the case of that
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
, the catchment-basin is
widest in the SE., the upper branches spreading across some
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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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