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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [297r] (598/738)
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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PHYSICAL FEATURES
587
ten miles of country, while the lower course is constricted
into a single narrow valley. The most important upper
branch, extending farthest SE., is successively known by the
following local names : W. Rashdan, En-Nasab, ‘As‘as,
Damak, and Seneisil, below which the main valley is W.
Hammam and, finally, Siqlab. A northern branch, running
almost parallel and joining at W. Hammam, is first W. el-
Hamra, then W. Abu Shawal, and W. Tibneh, the important
village of that name lying between it and W. Damak to the
south. W. Sharut (El-Mezar) and ‘Ainbeh (El-‘Ahseini) are
eastern, and W. Hallan ed-Dlk, El-‘Ayun (Izmal, Fadl), and
‘Amiid north-eastern tributaries of W. Tibneh. W. Siqlab
has a continuous stream of perennial water only in the last
six miles or so of its course ; but there is a brook about a mile
in length flowing from ‘Ayun el-Hammam just below the con
fluence of W. Seneisil and Tibneh, and reinforced half-way by
other springs, ‘Ayun el-Jurn.
As in the case of W. el-Yabis, the region S. of the lower
course of W. Siqlab drains independently to the Jordan
Valley. The more important wadis of this slope are El-Jisr
(Sartabeh), rising NE. of Kefr Abil, Jirm el-Moz (Et-Tineh), on
which is Fahl, Seil el-Hammeh, with hot springs, and W. Abu
Zeyyad (El-Makhruqeh), all perennial in their lower courses.
W. et-Tayyibeh rises a little further N. on the main water
shed than W. Siqlab. It is peculiar in having no tributaries
of any length, its valley being closely confined on either side
by those of other systems from its head to its outlet into the
Jordan valley, on the S. by W. Siqlab, on the N. by W. el-
Hasa (Qusseib, En-Nuheir, El-Bir), draining directly to Jordan,
and by W. Shdmar, a tributary of W. el-‘Arab. W. et-
Tayyibeh has the following local names from E. to W. :
Hiyar, Habaqeh, Jurun, Seheil, Semmu‘, Tayyibeh. Near
the village of Semmu‘, on the S. side of its middle course,
the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
bed is 500 ft. below the surrounding plateau ;
the village of Tayyibeh is also high on the plateau above
the N. bank a little farther to W. Though the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
is
torrential in winter, at other seasons it has perennial water
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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]
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- 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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