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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [25v] (50/122)
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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48
highest peak is the Bingeul Dagh ; along its northern side flow the upper
reaches of the Euphrates, under Erzerum and Erzingan, past the Munzur
Dagh and the Aghnana Dagh ; there the river bends sharply southwards,
thus constituting the western confines of this region ; it runs toward
the south-west till it reaches the Bereta Dagh, where it curves
outwards to embrace that range in its sweep; finally, the first
portion of the southern boundary is formed by the same river, which
follows a south-westerly course round the Ziaret Dagh. On the other
side the Tigris, which is usually unfordable there, and the deep Bitlis gorge
offer an impassable barrier to all communication between the north and the
south. This region is on the whole far more mountainous than the lower
part; it is perhaps for this reason that the Kurds who live in it are less
known than their southern neighbours. Most of the information contained
in this section has been taken from the work of Sir Mark Sykes, who
admits that he has experienced great difficulty in obtaining any account
whatever of many of these tribes.
The following classification treats them under the several groups
into which they fall. The first group contains five tribes, situated at
the south-western extremity of upper Kurdistan, in the vincinity of
Bladur:—
Tribe.
Chief.
Strength.
Capital.
1. Rammant
(northern
section).
Emin Ahmed Agha ...
300 houses scat
tered among
7 villages.
Kafr Zo, near
El-Madin.
2. Rajaban
Hamid ibn Herza
4 villages
Bladur.
3. Sinnikan
Husni Agha; the sub
chief is Kanja Agha,
his brother
300 houses, 6
villages
Zerjili.
4. Alikan
Hasan ‘Osman Agha...
200 houses, 6
villages
Jinasgir.
5. Meladibo ...
Khalil Washi Agha ...
70 houses, 3
villages
Azik Yokari.
Besides these tribes, there are about 40 villages of which the in
habitants are mixed Arabs and Kurds, who have fled from Diarbekr and
Mardin. Their chief is Ahmed Kehian Agha, who has fixed his capital at
Tepe Keui.
t There is a southern section of this tribe in the Qaz& of Sor, where they own
about 600 houses, scattered over 12 villages ; their chief is Khalil Mohammed, a cousin
of Emin Ahmed.
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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