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'Handbook of Arabia. Vol. I. 1917' [199] (208/748)
The record is made up of 1 volume (371 folios). It was created in 1916. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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RECENT HISTORY AND PRESENT POLITICS 199
was made towards Waht. On the receipt of reports in September
that the Turks were preparing to retire from Lahej, a column sur
prised the enemy, estimated at 700 Turks with eight guns and
1,000 Arabs, and seized and occupied Waht. In October and
again in December our cavalry had small affairs with hostile recon
noitring parties, in which the latter were driven off with loss ;
and in December friendly Arabs, supported by a small infantry
detachment, drove off a hostile Turkish and Arab force which was
advancing on Tmad.
Owing to the Turks dispatching troops to coerce the tribes in
the east of the Aden Protectorate, a demonstration in support of
these tribes was made by the Aden movable column on January 12th,
1916, in the direction of Subar. The column located a Turkish force
near Subar, about 4 m. SSE. of Lahej, and engaged it, inflicting
considerable losses on it. As a result of this action the Turkish
pressure on the Arab tribes is reported to have been relieved.
Since then there has been little change.
The strength of the principal tribal units and the political attitude
of their rulers are described in the sections on the Tribal Con
federations (pp. 206 ff.).
DISTRICTS AND TOWNS
I. Aden Settlement
The Settlement of Aden comprises the following divisions: (1) the
peninsula and isthmus, or Aden proper, which has an area of about
21 square miles and a population, in 1915, of 36,900 ; (2) Sheikh
'Othman and the district round, inclusive of the villages of 'Imad
and Hiswah, which has an area of 39 square miles and a popula
tion of 7,700 ; (3) Little Aden peninsula, with 15 square miles of
area and population 330 ; and (4) the island of Perim, with 5 square
miles of area and population 1,300. The total area of the Settle
ment is therefore about 80 square miles, with a total population of
just over 46,000 souls.
The British territory was at first limited to the peninsula of Aden
proper, and extended only to Kh5r Maksar creek, which forms
the neck of the peninsula two miles north of the defensive works
across the isthmus. In 1868 the peninsula of Little Aden, or Jebel
Ihsan, was acquired by purchase from the Sultan of the 'Aqrabi.
In 1882, owing to the increasing population of Aden town, a further
small tract of territory was acquired by purchase, from the Sultan
of Lahej, beyond the Khor Maksar creek, extending to just beyond
the small village of 'Imad on the north and just beyond the town
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This volume is A Handbook of Arabia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: May, 1916) and contains geographical and political information of a general character concerning the Arabian Peninsula. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, from sources, including native information obtained for the purpose of compiling the volume, since the outbreak of the First World War. Separate chapters are devoted to each of the districts or provinces of the Arabian Peninsula and include information on the physical character, as well as social and political surveys.
The volume includes a note on official use, title page, and a 'Note' on the compilation of the volume. There is a page of 'Contents' that includes the following sections:
- Chapter 1: Physical Survey;
- Chapter 2: Social Survey;
- Chapter 3: The Bedouin Tribes: A. Northern Tribes, B. Tribes of the Central West, C. Tribes of the Central South, D. Tribes of the Central East, Supplement: Non-Bedouin Nomads;
- Chapter 4: Hejaz;
- Chapter 5: Asir;
- Chapter 6: Yemen;
- Chapter 7: Aden and Hadhramaut: A. Aden and the Interior, B. Hadhramaut;
- Chapter 8: Oman: A. The sultanate of Oman, B. Independent Oman;
- Chapter 9: The Gulf Coast: A. The Sultanate of Koweit [Kuwait], B. Hasa, C. Bahrain, D. El-Qatar, E. Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ;
- Chapter 10: Nejd;
- Chapter 11: Jebel Shammar;
- Chapter 12: The Northern Nefūd and Dahanah Belts;
- Chapter 13: Settled Tribes of the North-West;
- Chapter 14: Settled Tribes of the West;
- Chapter 15: Settled Tribes of the South;
- Chapter 16: Settled Tribes of the Centre;
- Appendix: Note of Topographical and Common Terms;
- Index;
- Plates.
The front of the volume includes a 'List of Maps' and a 'Note on the Spelling of Proper Names'. Maps contained in this volume are:
- Map 1: Arabia: Districts and Towns;
- Map 2: Orographical Features of Arabia;
- Map 3: Land Surface Features of Arabia;
- Map 4: Tribal Map of Arabia.
The volume also contains fifteen plates of photographs and sketches by Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Douglas Carruthers, Captain Gerard Leachman, Dr Julius Euting, George Wyman Bury, and Samuel Barrett Miles.
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- 1 volume (371 folios)
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The volume is arranged in chapters. There is a contents page, list of maps, alphabetical index, and list of plates.
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last of various maps which are inserted at the back of the volume, on number 371.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:381, 384:726, ii-r:ii-v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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