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'A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)' [157v] (319/348)
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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294
RAILWAYS
Total distances
from Constantinople.
Continuing along the Ergene Valley, the line crosses
the Burgas Dere and numerous small streams.
Cross the Burgas Dere by one 40-ft. lattice girder
(above the rails) and another on stone piers 20 ft.
above stream-level.
Cross the Nehlan Dere by a bridge of similar con
struction. The line then skirts the foot of some low
undulations on the N., with wide marshy meadows
a mile wide, traversed on the S. side by the sluggish
stream of the Ergene.
Alpulu (Baba Eski Junction) (alt. Ill ft.). The
village of Baba Eski is about 6 miles to the NW. on
the Constantinople-Adrianople road. A few houses,
khans, cafes, and stores with a small yard lie just out
side the station to the N. Carriages and ox-carts
are normally obtainable here for the journey to Kirk
Kilisse, to which place a contractor maintained (1909)
a regular cart service for goods. South of the station
are some houses for railway officials, with a small
forge and carpenter’s shop.
A good metalled road runs N. to Kirk Kilisse. The
flat valley of the Ergene has deep black soil with
marshy meadows. The stream is deep and sluggish
except in flood, and is bordered by reeds. The
Hairobolu road crosses by a masonry bridge of one
80-ft. span, with two minor arches.
The Baba Eski Junction station has five sidings
(two having been built in 1910), of which two are
400 yds. long and one 300 yds. long, capable of ac
commodating 60 trucks; also a small goods shed and
a water-tank. There is a turntable, two watering
pumps, and a newly constructed military platform
120-30 yds. long. A shunting engine was usually
kept here.
miles
133|
142
143
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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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