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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [338v] (679/862)
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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526 PORTS AND INLAND TOWNS
of Lubbad which was once besieged and sacked by the Romans. In Ab-
basid times the town still flourished, being famous for its palm-groves, and
gave refuge to the Caliph Kaim in a.d. 1058 when the Dilemites espoused
the Shia cause. At the end of the seventeenth century the Persian invasions
reached Ana and it suffered damage (photo. 131).
Communications
Land: Unmetalled road [4] east to Ramadi and west to A 1 Qaim. An
almost waterless dry-weather track (Darb as Sultan) connects Rawa on the
left bank east to A 1 Hadhr (Hatra) in the Jazira and Shora on the Mosul-
Baghdad road.
Water: The river is navigable for shakhturs (p. 558), the boatmen of
Ana being noted for their knowledge of the currents both above and below
the town.
Air: Landing-ground 1 mile south of the town.
Aqra. 36° 45' N., 43 0 54' E.; alt. c. 2,500 feet. Pop. 4,000. Qadha cap.,
Mosul Liwa.
Aqra is a small town 50 miles north-east of Mosul on the southern slopes
of the rugged 4,000-foot Aqra Dagh overlooking the Mosul plain (photo.
201). The chief settlement in the territory of the Surchi Kurds, it is inhabited
mainly by Kurds, but it also includes Jews and Christians, particularly
Nestorians. The town, which contains 800 houses mostly of stone, is built
on a spur isolated by two streams, but has spread into the valleys. A Jewish
quarter is on the left bank of the western stream, a Christian on the right
bank of the eastern. The Christians are blacksmiths, joiners, and artisans;
the Jews traders and weavers. Rice and tobacco are grown for local con
sumption. Water from springs round the town has a mineral content.
There is a strong police post in the town and an antique sarai; though the
townsfolk are peaceable, both the Surchi and the Zibari tribe north of the
Aqra Dagh are amongst the most troublesome tribes in Kurdistan.
Communications
Land : Bad track north over Aqra Dagh to upper Great Zab valley and
Zibar village. Mule-track south-east to Kandil ferry over the Great Zab
and thence to Ruwandiz. Unmetalled fair-weather road [10] south-west to
Mosul.
Air : Landing-ground (summer) in the plain 4 miles south-west of Aqra.
Baghdad. See p. 499.
Baquba. 33 0 45'N.,44°39'E.; alt.c. i5ofeet. Pop. 10,000. Diyala Liwa cap.
The town lies 34 miles north-north-east of Baghdad near the left bank
of the Diyala and is surrounded by date-gardens and orange-groves. It is
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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.
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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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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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