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'A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)' [159v] (323/348)
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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298
RAILWAYS
Total distances
from Constantinople.
miles I
175^
The bridge commences from the 1. bank with six
|30-ft. and five 80-ft. spans of lattice girders, followed
by a short length of earth embankment. Then comes
i the bridge over the middle channel, 25 ft. high and
consisting of fifteen spans of 55-ft. lattice girders.
The piers consist of iron piping about 18 in. in diameter,
braced together with stays. Fifty yds. beyond is the
bridge over the western or main channel, formed of
three 150-ft. spans of box-girder formation 15 ft.
square, through which the train passes. The piers
are of masonry, and the rails are 30 ft. above the
summer height of the water. The bridge was bombed
by the R.N.A.S. in Dec. 1916 and Jan. 1917.
For 200 yds. above the bridge on the r. bank is a
retaining wall to check the rush of the current.
Kuleli Burgas Station (alt. 79 ft.). Junction with
the Demotika-Dedeagach-Salonica railway. The
station contains If mile of sidings. There are two
sidings of 400 yds. each, two of 600 yds. each, with
a big siding running westward for 900 yds. to a dead
end. Small restaurant. There are a turntable, two
watering-tanks, and a coal depot at this station. A
rough cart-track, passable for guns, leads from Kuleli
Burgas Station to the crest of the high spur W. of the
bridge. Along the flat ground on the 1. bank an
embankment 25 ft. high has been constructed as an
immediate approach to the bridge. The dead-end
siding accommodates 50 trucks which are kept here in
reserve.
There are only a few wooden huts and some cafes
near the station.
The village, a small place inhabited (1909) by Turks
and Bulgarians, is situated 1 mile to the W. under
a ruined tower on the hill-side.
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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)'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:98v, 107r:170v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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