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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [36v] (72/122)
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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regions, such as Diarbekr or Lake Van, who have gradually drifted across
the country to their present homes. They are now settling down to
agricultural life or hire themselves out as shepherds ; they dwell in tents
with walls of stone in the winter, in bowers in the autumn, and in tents in
the summer. They are kind and hospitable, and they have won for them
selves a good reputation in the country. They are, however, extremely
ignorant. The men are tall and well built, the women good-looking.
Owing to their turbulence the Turkish Government was compelled to
impose on them a rigorous control and to confine them to fixed areas in and
around the Jebel Bereket, the Kurd Dagh, the southern slopes and skirts
of the Taurus range between Marash and Malatia, and in the region of
the Euphrates. The Kurd Dagh, especially, is fairly well peopled, and is a
rich and carefully tilled tract of country, on which numerous settlements
have sprung up among vineyards, olive-groves, and gardens, and con
siderable parts of which are covered with cereal crops.
§ 2 .—In
Anatolia
Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey.
*
The tribes catalogued in this zone, which lies outside the limits of
Kurdistan, have all been settled here as the result of forcible deportations
carried out by the Sultan Selim.
Tribe.
dumber of
families.
Locality.+
Remarks.
1.
Ukhchicemi ...
300
[W. of Sivas]
Sedentary.
2.
Urukchili
400
[Near Tokat]
Near ‘Osmanjik
Perhaps Yuruk.J
3.
Milli...
20
Shepherds.
4.
SheikhBazeini(i)
120
Near Boiabad in
Nomads, who speak
Anatolia
Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey.
Kermanji but wear
Anatolian dress.
5.
Sheveli
(?)
[In bend of river
Kizil Irmak, near
‘Osmanjik]
Sedentary; forcibly con-
6.
Badeli
200
Near Yozgat
verted to orthodox
Islam about 50 years
ago.
* This section is taken from the account given by Sir Mark Sykes.
+ The localities enclosed in square brackets are taken from the outline-map given
by Sir Mark Sykes after comparison with other sheets; those not enclosed in brackets
are given in his own words. . . _ , „
J For an account of the Yuruk, see Sir W. M. Ramsay’s Impressions of Turkey
(chap. 5, § 3, p. 105).
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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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