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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [333v] (671/738)
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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660 THE GHOR AND
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A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
‘ARABAH
this region and who, in summer, seek the comparative relief
of the higher slopes, occupying their upland tribal territory
in the mountains on either flank.
The distribution of the Arab tribes fluctuates in various
districts and the statistics of early authorities are unreliable.
The following incomplete table of tribes is compiled from
Schumacher's maps 1908-11, from various articles, and from
A tribal Handbook of Syria. 1
The Eastern Ghor :
The Sukhur el-Ghor, about the Yarmuk and W. eRArab,;
they also cultivate the district of Delhamiyeh, in
the Western Ghor.
The Ya‘qub el-Fadil and the
Raja
King
, about the W. el-‘Arab
district.
The Beni Sakhr, about Tell el-Arba‘m.
The Balawaneh, about the lower W. Rajib.
The Mashalkha and the ‘Abbad, about the lower N. ez-Zerqa.
The Western Ghbr :
The Sukhur, the Hamadi, and the Beshatwi, between
W. el-Bireh and Beisan plain.
The Siyr and the Ghazzawiyeh, in the Bieisan district.-
The Masa id, about W. Ear‘ah.
The K abneh el- £ Aujeh, about W. el-Aujeh.
The Ghawarneh, in the plain of Jericho.
The Sawarhereh, about Jericho and Nebi Musa.
The ‘Ubeidiyeh and the Ta‘amireh, from the Jordan mouth
to Ras Feshkhah.
The Rasha’ideh, about £ Ain Jidi.
The Beni Sakhr are the most powerful of these and they
now constitute the chief tribe of the southern trans-Jordan
country. The Bedouin of the Ghor are cultivators and
stock raisers some tribes having a proportion of low class
fellahin
Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour.
. Certain of the lower class tribes, such as the
Ghazzawiyeh and the Ghawarneh, have become
fellahin
Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour.
and
are tenant cultivators of the state lands. An estimate of the
numbers occupying the Ghdr proper, at any one time of the
1 Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo ; provisional edition, 1918.
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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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