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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [24v] (48/122)
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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46
Tribe.
Number of
villages.
Number of
families.
Chief.
Remarks.
7. Dereveri Banda
Zhair
5
250
Shukri & Tawfiq,
sons of Esa
Hamu
All robbers; one
village irrigated;
allies of Tzz-ud-
Din of Qasr.
8. Kohsar
10
800
Beglar family,
of Sor
Noirrigation; popu
lation slightly
reduced by war.
9. Atraf Ishmahr
5
400
No tribal organisa
tion ; reduced by
war.
The two divisions of the Omarian are really one tribe, which, in an
emergency, might unite under the lead of Mohomed Jezire; they possess
about 400 modern rifles with 300 rounds of ammunition a rifle, and about
1,500 rifles of an older pattern. Both sections of the Surgichi and the
Shaikhan are under the same chief, Hajji Ahmed Agha, who is reported to
have 1,200 modern rifles with 400 rounds of ammunition a rifle. The two
Dereveri own about 150 modern rifles and 500 others of various patterns,
and the Kohsar 50 modern and 200 others ; the Atraf Ishmahr have very
few modern weapons and about 50 of an older type.
The following list of the Kurdish villages in the qazd of Midiat was
also supplied by Major Noel:—
(i.) HAWAIRKI (HAVERKI) GROUP.
Village.
Number of
families.
Population.
Chief.
1. Alika
15
600
Hutto and ‘Osman-us-Salih.
2. Seyida
10
720
Aliai Baki Khalil Zade ibn
Sayyid Ahmed.
3. Dermamuka* ...
15
500
Hasan Hama Salih.
4. Saliha
6
400
Ramazan ibn Ismail.
5. Mizizakf
12
1,000
‘Ali Batti.
6. Beravi
12
600
‘Osman and ‘Abdi.
7. ‘Arabia
50
2,400
‘Abd-ul-Kerim.
8. Dumanal
12
700
Mohomed ibn Ailko and Yusuf
ibn Sulaiman.
9. Qaza Alika
17
1,500
‘Osman.
* Two Christian villages f Three villages of Yezidi. ; Three Christian villages.
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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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