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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [33r] (65/122)
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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68
Tribe.
Number of
families.
Locality.
Remarks.
4. Shaykhan
500
Between Tigris and
Greater and Les
ser Zab
Baba.
5. D’sdie
5,000
Headquarters on the
Sultan’s demesne
in Kara Chok
Dagb
Partly nomads, partly
agriculturalists, who
have suffered much
from drought and
locusts. Men good
horsemen; women
very handsome, wear
ing dark, heavy gar
ments without colour
or ornaments and
blue turbans. Baba.
6. Daudieh
4,000
Banks of Lesser Zab
Semi-nomadic; warlike,
poor horsemen, good
swimmers. Baba.
7. Sheikh Bazeini
4,000
[S.Fj. of Mosul;] on
Persian frontier
from June to Sep
tember
Warlike and turbulent,
robbers, good horse
men ; they live in
villages in winter,
in tents near villages
in summer; Persian
dress. Baba.
8. Girdi
6,000
One section at Ush-
kafsakka, other
on W. of ‘Ain
Kawa; in summer
in Wazna district
Very wealthy; shep
herds and agricul
turalists; warlike;
good horsemen. Per
sian dress. Baba.
9. Acu ...
500
Some in town of
Rania; in summer
at Wazna
Semi-nomadic, warlike ;
good horsemen; Baba.
10. Bilbas
400
On frontier; in sum
mer at Wazna
Semi-nomads. Baba.
11. Mamasii
2,000
On frontier; in sum
mer at Wazna
Nomads. Baba.
12. Pi ran
900
[On frontier op
posite Bane]
Similar to Sheikh Ba
zeini in customs.
18. Nuredi
(?)
[S. of Piran]
Baba.
14. Hainawand.
The Hamawand Kurds are a famous tribe, numbering about 1,200
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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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