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'A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)' [11v] (27/348)
The record is made up of 1 volume (170 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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18 BOUNDARIES AND PHYSICAL FEATURES
of the heights above an altitude of about 650 ft. The slopes
of the Kilid Bahr plateau are covered with pine and oak,
growing thickly together, but not of large size. The top of
the plateau is covered only with scrub about 2 ft. high. The
valley of the Kilia Ovasi has oak trees of considerable size.
The numerous valleys run mostly at right angles to the line
of the peninsula, all the larger valleys, except one, going
towards the Dardanelles. The exception is the Kurtumus
Dere, which runs down to the Ejelmar Bay, north-east
of Suvla. The valleys have very steep sides, with flat and
marshy bottoms. From the coast, between Cape Helles
and Ejelmar Bay, there are several openings into the interior,
but no made roads. Between Ejelmar Bay and Bulair there
is no practicable entrance. The slopes of the hills, although
comparatively gentle in places, as for instance where the
ground falls to Cape Helles, have been rendered difficult by
the action of the rain, which has broken up the chalk and
sandstone, and covered the ground with fragments. It is
believed that water could be found by boring almost anywhere
in the peninsula.
The Coast. The coast of the Gallipoli Peninsula is steep and
difficult of access in every part, although on the Dardanelles
side it is less steep on the whole than anywhere else. From
Cape Helles in the extreme south-west to the low ground by
Suvla Bay, the coast is rocky, with chalk cliffs 100 to about
330 ft. high. Here and there little sandy beaches break the
line of the cliffs, but the only openings of any size are the
valleys of the Chan Ovasi and the Asmak Dere. The Asmak
Dere itself is, at its mouth, 10 yds. wide and 2 ft. deep. The
shore is sandy, and at a point 600 yds. due south of Kaba
Tepe (between this promontory and the stream) there is
deep water close in to the shore. Sandy hillocks covered with
tufts of grass form a fringe between the beach and the main
land. Between the mouth of the Asmak Dere and Maidos
there is connexion first by track and then by road.
Proceeding north-east along the coast from the Asmak
Dere, one comes to the only extensive piece of flat country
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Copy of 'A handbook of Turkey in Europe, prepared on behalf of the Admiralty , Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division, January 1917.'
The volume contains thirteen photographic plates (folios 99-106) and a map (folio 171).
Contents (folio 6):
Section I
- I. Boundaries and Physical Features, p 9 (f 7);
- II. Climate, p 27 (f 16);
- III. Modern History, p 34 (f 19v);
- IV. Ethnology and Languages, p 49 (f 27);
- V. Religions, p 66 (f 35v);
- VI. Government and Administration, p 96 (f 50v);
- VII. Turkish Social Life, p 114 (f 59v);
- VIII. Economic Geography and Finance, p 142 (f 73v);
- IX. Chief Towns, p 166 (f 85v);
- X. Money, Weights and Measures, the Calendar, p 185 (f 95).
Section II. Itineraries.
- Roads, p 193(f 107);
- Railways, p 276 (f 148v).
Index, p 307 (f 164).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (170 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a table of contents at folio 6, and an index at folios 164-170.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 172; 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. An original pagination sequence is present in parallel between ff 7-170.
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- Title
- 'A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:98v, 107r:170v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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