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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [242r] (488/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. 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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DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION
359
the lands east of the Tigris and south of the Jabal Hamrin, except
for the riverain strip and the agricultural zone of the Diyala. North
of the Jabal Hamrin, Arab shepherd tribes are found both west and
east of the Tigris as far north as Mosul and the Little Zab, and reach
sporadically to Jezireh Ibn Omar (Cizre)just beyond the Iraqi-Turkish
border. This is the extreme limit of Arab penetration. In the Kur
dish areas the situation is more complicated (p. 341), but semi-nomads
are found throughout the foothills and Assyrian plains south of the
Great Zab, and genuine nomads are found during the winter in the
foothills north-east of Erbil and in the Diyala valley. The detailed
distribution of nomadic tribes will be found below, p. 361 ff. •
The total nomadic population has been estimated at 600,000
including 80,000 beduin, but these are figures of very doubtful
meaning and value.
Increase of Population
Since the registration of births and deaths is very inadequately
carried out, even in the towns, it is not possible to give any valid vital
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; 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
- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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