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'A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)' [154v] (313/348)
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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288
RAILWAYS
Total distances
from Constantinople.
miles
20 !
24!
country from station. Minimum radius of curves
from San Stefano to Cherkesskoi, 984 ft.
Continuing over bare country, skirting the Marmara,
the line reaches
Kuchuk Chekmeje (alt. 49 ft.) station at the mouth
of lagoon of the same name. For half a mile in front
of the station is a good sandy beach with an easy
slope up to the railway. Two sidings 530 yds. long.
Additional sidings could be constructed if necessary E.
of the station. Near is the Floria estate. Behind the
station monument to Russian dead 1877-8. The
town lies about l^ miles to the NE. The Adrianople
chaussee, roughly metalled, crosses the line here
at the mouth of the lagoon by a masonry bridge,
after which it follows the coast towards Buyuk
Chekmeje. Boats drawing 2 ft. 6 in. to 3 ft. can
cross the sandy bar at the mouth of the lagoon, and
ascend for a few hundred yards, but the way is blocked
then by a fishing weir of stakes. The line turns
inland, following the shore of the lagoon, on the far
side of which are low bare hills. It then curves round
the northern shore of the lake at the foot of some
rocky hills covered with low scrub.
A deep stream with marshy banks, the Tashlu Dere,
is crossed at the head of the lake by a bridge of three
40-ft. plate girders on stone piers. From the bridge
the line winds over a broad clay spur and ascends
a valley to the NW. in which is a small stream, the
Ak Bunar Dere.
Sparta Kule (alt. 49 ft.). Small passing station
with one siding, 400 yds. long, and a water-tank.
Ascending the valley of the Ak Bunar Dere, a small
stream, by an easy gradient of 1 in 80, the stream is
crossed by two 30-ft. girders on stone piers.
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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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- '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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