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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [23r] (45/122)
The record is made up of 1 file (59 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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Bey ibn Mustafa
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, who died during the war; their tents are 400 in
number and the warriors of the tribe do not exceed that figure. Yusuf
Agha Raspi rules the Kichan tribe, whose tents number 250, and then-
troops about 250 men.
There is another group of ‘Alian Kurds who dwell in the hills between
Dairmah and Tell Rumailan. They are tillers of the soil, who rear flocks
also, which they drive down to the plains round Tell Abu for pasture in
the spring. Their aghd is Mohammed Agha ibn Mar‘an Agha. They
occupy 30 villages and are supposed to have a strength of 500 rifles.
Sheep-rearing is the chief occupation of these tribes, and they do not de
vote much labour to cultivation. Cereals are scarce, especially wheat; hut
a considerable amount of rice is grown, and almost all kinds of fruit are
obtainable except oranges and lemons. All the Kurds in these regions have
won a reputation as experts at stealing arms ; they are also good hunters.
Other small tribes in the same district are given in the following
list:—
Tribe.
Chief.
Strength.
Locality.
Arshitan...
Hasan Shamdin ...
10,000 men
Near Midiat.
Deiraberi
Aissa-’l-Hammo ...
5,000 men
Near Mardin.
Deirabi ...
‘Osman Agha
5,000 men
Between Mardin,
Nisibin & Jezirat-
ibn-Omar.
Chelki ‘Ali Rummo
‘Abd-ul-Kerim
1,500 men
District of Midiat.
Zilieh
Musto
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
Khoja
Very num
erous
Scattered.
Note I.
The list of Kurds living in the Tur-el-‘Abdin, as given by Sir Mark
Sykes, is a follows
Tribe.
Number of
families.
Remarks.
1. Mizizkah
390
Kurds; Moslems.
2. Saur...
(?)
Mixed Christians and Moslems, speaking
Arabic.
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The file consists of a publication concerning Kurdistan and the Kurds. Produced and published by the General Staff, India, and printed in Mount Carmel, Palestine. It provides an edited collection of information based on the reports of military and political officers Captain C F Woolley, and Major Edward Noel (dated c 1919), and a paper written by Sir Mark Sykes in 1908.
It is divided into the following sections:
- Kurdistan and the Kurds - including boundaries, topography, and its inhabitants;
- the Kurdish tribes - including their locality, rough numbers, character, prominent families, and allegiances;
- Kurdish tribes outside Kurdistan - between Erzingan [Erzincan] and Sivas and in the neighbourhood of Marash [Kahramanmaraş], in Anatolia Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey. , and in Syria;
- the Kurdish Movement for independence - history, origins, and causes;
- additions and corrections.
Also includes one map on folio 61: 'KURDISTAN AND THE KURDISH TRIBES'.
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- 1 file (59 folios)
- Arrangement
The file consists of a single publication. A contents page is at the front of the volume (f 2).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio, with 61, which is a folded map attached to the outside back cover; 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 file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Kurdistan and the Kurds'
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- front, front-i, 2r:19r, 21v:60v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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