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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [324v] (653/738)
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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642
EL-JIBAL AND ESH-SHERA
Seil ‘Afra through El-'Aimeh and along the terraces by Shobek
to Delaghah and El-Beidha, joining the Roman road to Akaba
at Homeimeh. This route can still be used, and is easy south
of Shdbek, but under present conditions it serves only a scanty
local traffic. It is said by Musil to continue farther south into
El-Hisma and Iram.
The more important transverse routes connecting this
region with Egypt, Sinai, and West Palestine across ‘Arabah,
are : the track from ‘Ain Hosb in northern ‘Arabah up the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Dahkel to the north-south road in the neighbourhood
of Buseireh ; a more southerly track from ‘Ain Hosb up the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Ghuweir to Shdbek; the route from ‘Ain Hosb or ‘Ain
el-Weibeh over Naqb Namleh to Petra, for Ma‘an ; and
a second route from ‘Ain el-Weibeh to Petra by Naqb
er-Raba‘i and
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Khusheibeh. Minor transverse tracks
run up from ‘Arabah.
Inhabitants
Settled places .—In the whole area there are only nine
places with settled or half-settled inhabitants. Akaba is a
maritime village with one street on the east shore of the
Gulf of Akaba near its head. Its population is unlikely to
exceed 1,000, and is chiefly occupied in cultivating, for a share
of the produce, the palm-groves and gardens in the narrow
strip of fertile land between it and the sea, which for the
most part belong to Huwat, Huweitat and ‘Imran Bedouin.
Water is found in this strip at a depth of about 3 ft., but
there is a public well and cistern immediately west of the
fort formerly occupied by the Turkish garrison. Ma‘an, with
about 3,000 inhabitants or more, on the edge of the desert,
has great gardens of peaches, apricots, figs, and pome
granates with a few palms, and corn land distant about
three or four hours to the west (see further, Handbook of
Arabia, vol. ii, p. 121). Tafileh, with a population estimated
at about 9,000, is the capital of a kaza, and the principal
place in El-Jibal. Sh5bek is similarly important with regard
to Esh-Shera.
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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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