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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [29v] (58/122)
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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56
Tribe.
Number of
families.
Locality.
Remarks.
2. Alikanli
150
[On S. shore of L.
Van]
8. Halaji
900
On S. shore of L.
Van
Mixed Kurds, Turks and
Armenians; sedentary
4. Silukan
900
[S. of Duderi]
Nomads ; cultivators ;
they migrate to plain
of Mush in summer.
5. Kichian
150
[S. of Alikanli]
Nomads.
6. Tiyan
300
[S. of Halaji]
Bad reputation; reputed
branch of Tayy Arabs.
7. Atmanikan
8. Eiru ...
5,000
100
Headquarters near
Bohtan and Bitlis
pass; in summer
in plain of Mush
[W. of Atmanikan]
Very wealthy, but
possessed of very few
horses.
9. Balian
70
[S. of Eiru]
Semi-nomadic, poor and
scattered.
10. Dakhori
11. Hasseina
12. Keka
(?)
500
(?)
In vicinity of
Shernakh
[Near Jezirat-ibn-
‘Omar]
Near Julamerk
Sedentary.
18. Shiriki
200
Locality at present
uncertain
Sedentary ; wealthy.
14. Takuli
15. Tribe of un
known name
450
(?)
[On Turco-Persian
frontier, to E. of
Van]
[Opposite Takuli,
over frontier in
Persia]
Perhaps sub-tribe of
Zilanli ; sedentary ;
very poor physique.
16. Shemsiki
900
[Close to frontier
between Van and
Urmiyah]
Sedentary; chiefs re
fined and handsome,
tribesmen very ugly;
chiefs claim Arab
origin.
17. Shekak
6,000
[Scattered in sec
tions between
Lakes Van and
Urmiyah]
Called Revand by local
Armenians; sedentary,
(spending only three
months in tents).
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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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- Title
- '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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