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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [‎24r] (47/122)

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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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45
Note II.
Major E. Noel, who made a special tour in this part of Kurdistan in
the spring of 1919, gives the following list of Kurdish tribes in the qazd
of Sa‘our:—
Tribe.
Number of
villages.
Number of
families.
Chief.
Remarks.
1. Omarian-ul-
27
1,900
‘Ali Agha and
Reputed robbers;
Fauqani
Ismail Agha
water in all
villages, some
of which are
artificially irri
gated ; extensive
vinegards.
2. Omarian-ut-
25
1,800
Burdened with a
Reputed robbers;
Tab t an i
ruling Beglar
extensive vine-
family,of which
yards; half the
chief members
are ‘Osman
Agha, Ahmed
‘Ali, Janul,
Khahl.Ghazali
and Hajji
Hasan.
villages irrigated.
3. Surgichi Cham-
10
600
Population very
uz-Zhor
4. Surgichi Cham-
23
1,300
\ |
1 Hajji Ahmed
Agha*
much reduced
by war; all vil
lages irrigated.
uz-Zhair
5. Shaikhan
9
700
Unharmed by the
war.
6. Dereveri Banda
5
250
‘Abd-ul - Hakim
A11 robbe rs; di v i ded
Zhor
Bey
into two sections,
always at feud
with each other;
undamaged by
war; one village
irrigated.
* Of Avinah ; astute, but old and very rich and hospitable; a strong Kurdish
nationalist who would be friendly to the British if sure that they favoured Kurdish
national claims ; he keeps his tribe well in order.

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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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