'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [‎59r] (117/122)

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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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P. 90, 1. 16. Avromani.
This tribe occupies the slopes of the Avroman Dagh, partly in
Persian and partly in Turkish territory.
Tribes.
Sub-tribes.
Chiefs.
Fighting
Strength.
Luhun
Ja‘far-i-Snltan
600
j Rezao
Husein Khan
2,500
Takht
( Dizeli
Mahmud Khan Dizeli
350
Shahr
Nadir Sultan
450
They are well armed and have made themselves virtually indepen
dent of the Persian authorities and have seized the property of many
notables of Sennah. Husein Khan, a very intelligent man and a
sound leader, controls all the tribe; Ja far-i-Sultan is a bitter opponent
of the Turks and strongly Anglophile; Mahmud is nothing but a
turbulent brigand.
1. 22. Jabbari.
Their chief is Sayyid Muhammad; their strength is about 100
horsemen and 150 infantry. They are settled between Kirkuk and
Chamchamal and are engaged in agriculture.
1. 25. Merivani.
This tribe has been terribly reduced by war, famine and disease
and their numbers probably do not exceed 900 fighting men under
Kai Khusru Khan and 1,650 under Mahmud Khan. They live on the
Persian frontier round Merivan.
1. 28. Shuan.
There are two sub-tribes, the Kashik under Hasan (10 villages)
and Rajab (35 villages), and the Sarkhasa under ‘Aziz Sherif Jalal
(11 villages), Rashid (6 villages) and ‘Abdullah ‘Othman (8^villages).
They occupy the land between the Sheikh Bazeini on the N. and the
Qara Hasan hills on the S.
They cultivate wheat, barley, maize, lentils, and beans, as well as
some cotton and tobacco; but most of their ground is hilly and l»0/o is
useless for cultivation.
The Bibani, under Katkhuda Ahmed ibn Ma‘ruf, who occupy two
villages in the Gurgur hills, take refuge with the Shuan in times of
trouble.

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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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Reference: IOR/L/MIL/17/15/22
Title: 'Kurdistan and the Kurds'
Pages: front, front-i, 2r:19r, 21v:60v
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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