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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [352r] (706/862)
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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PORTS AND INLAND TOWNS 547
Nasiriya. 31 0 02' N., 46° 16' E.; alt. c. 15 feet. Pop. 18,000. Muntafiq
Liwa cap.
The town lies on the left or north bank of the lower Euphrates approxi
mately 110 miles north-west of Basra, and 85 miles by river below Samawa.
It is an agricultural and desert market centre, and controls a bridge across
the Euphrates. Three-quarters of its population are Shia Arabs. There is
a small Sabian community and some Persians and Jews.
Nasiriya was founded by Nasir Sadun
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, the paramount shaikh of
the Muntafiq confederation who accepted office under the Turks and
carried out the anti-tribal and agrarian policy of MidhatPasha(i869-i873).
This caused many local wars of the tribal
fellahin
Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour.
against their landlords.
In 1914 the principal shaikh, Ajaimi al Sadun, raised a tribal force to assist
the Turks against the British (p. 274). Ali Beg, the Turkish commander,
retreated after the battle of Shuaiba to Nasiriya, which was captured by
the British under General Gorringe in July 1915.
General Description
The town, around which there are many date-gardens, is surrounded by
a dilapidated mud wall 8 feet high in which are built nine defensive posts.
Gates on the north, south, and west give access to the town. There is a
river frontage of over half a mile (photo. 211); the town, protected by
extensive bunds from floods, is connected to the right bank by a pontoon
bridge. The majority of the 2,000 houses are built of burnt or sun-dried
brick. The streets are broad and straight, cutting each other at right angles,
and most of them are passable for traffic. There is a large sarai in the centre
and a big fortified police barracks (300x200 ft.) on the northern side of
Nasiriya, which also contains four schools, the Maude Memorial hospital
(100 beds), and an isolation hospital (25 beds). Nasiriya is the centre of a
relatively wealthy agricultural and pastoral region. Large stocks of grain—
wheat, barley, rice and maize—and also of dates are normally held in the
town; vegetables are available in season, and the shepherd tribes of the
region keep great flocks. Water is supplied, unfiltered and unclean, by a
municipal pumping station, and electricity by a municipal plant (40 kW.).
There is a bazaar which is frequented in season by Dhafir beduin, and
the Sabians ply, in a quarter of their own, their special crafts as silversmiths,
carpenters, and builders of river craft. A local bellum of 10 tons burden is
much in use.
Communications
Rail: The station on the south (right bank) above the town is the ter
minus of a branch-line connecting at Ur junction with the Baghdad-Basra
line (Rly. 1) (p. 59 1 )-
Road: Unmetalled road [3] north by Shatra to Kut al Imara. Un
metalled road east to Albu Salih and Hammar villages, and east-south-east
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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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