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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [23v] (46/122)
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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44
Tribe.
Number of
families
Remarks.
3. Mahalemi
800
Probably mixed Arabs and Kurds;
originally Christian, according to
tradition: mostly Moslems now, but
women unveiled; speaking debased
Arabic.
4. Haruna
750
Sedentary Kurds ; about 90 families are
Jacobite Christians.
5. Del Mamikan ...
(?)
Sedentary Kurds; speaking debased
Arabic.
6. Domana
180
Christians and Moslems.
7. Dorkan
120
Yezidi and Moslems.
8. Mom an
600
Moslems, speaking Kermanji ; about
90 families and 3 tribal chiefs are
Christian.
9. Haverka
1,800
Half Christian, half Moslem, speaking
Kermanji.
10. Salahan
(?)
(?)
11. Girgiri
500
Tent-dwelling agriculturalists, speaking
Kermanji, but said to be of Arab
origin.
12. Dasikan
900
Yezidi, Moslems and Christians, speak
ing Kermanji.
13. Alian
1,200
Yezidi, Moslems and Christians, speak
ing Kermanji.
14. Mizidagh
(?)
(?)
Of these only four tribes occur in our list also, namely the Saur
(Sa'our), and the Mahalemi (Muhallamiyeh); the Haverka and the Alian
are clearly identical with the Haverki and Alian in section 7, while the
Girgiri are perhaps connected with the Gargariyah in this account.
About these tribes Sir Mark Sykes says that it is very difficult to
state with any precision whether they can be classed as Kurds or not;
presumably they represent scattered fragments of the old Aramaean
population, mized with the imperial colonists of Roman times, Kurds,
Persians, Turks and Mongols. Some are entirely Moslem, others Jacobite
Christian, others devil-worshippers, and others again comprise adherents
of all three religions. Taken as a whole, they are an industrious and capable
people, good stone-masons and admirable vine-growers, but withal fierce,
bloodthirsty, vindictive, revengeful and treacherous.
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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)
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The file consists of a single publication. A contents page is at the front of the volume (f 2).
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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