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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [354v] (711/862)
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
552
authorities and was murdered by a mob in Mosul in 1909. His family re
tained much power, and its most notable member in recent times has been
the Kurdish nationalist leader Shaikh Mahmud (p. 307).
General Description (photo. 212)
The town, which is unwalled, has a fine open square in its centre, and
though many streets are narrow, the main thoroughfares are wide enough
for motor traffic. Most of the 3,000 houses are flat-roofed, mud-brick
buildings, some standing in walled compounds and amid gardens, and the
more substantial being on the north-western outskirts. The principal
secular buildings are the sarai and municipal offices, the army barracks on
the north-western edge of the town, and three schools. There are two small
hotels and several khans, a civil hospital of 84 beds and a military hospital
of 25 beds, a fine bath, and a vaulted bazaar. Besides the usual mosques
there is the shrine of Kaka Ahmad, founder of the shaikhly family of Said.
A great part of the population are peasants, but the town contains a
wealthy commercial class and is the market for the cereals (wheat, barley,
and rice) of the Tanjero valley, and for the various products of the mountain
regions, such as gum, skins, gallnuts, tobacco, cotton, honey, dairy pro
duce, and raisins. Local crafts include shoe- and saddle-making, but the
former industry of hand-made rifles seems no longer to flourish. There is
a soda-water
factory
An East India Company trading post.
.
Electricity for lighting is provided by a municipal plant (25 kW.).
Water is supplied by karez to a 60,000-gallon tank on the north-east of the
town, from which it is distributed through the town by twenty-four karezes
running from north-east to south-west.
C ommunications
Land: Tarmac road [8] west to Chemchemal and Kirkuk. Metalled
road [8] east to Penjwin and to Hamadan in Persia, with a branch [8 c] south
to Halabja. Mountain tracks radiate north-west up the Tanjero valley to
Dukan on the Little Zab [8 a\ and thence to Rania, north-east to Choarta,
and south-south-west [8 b] to Qaradagh and Kifri.
Air: Landing-ground south-west of the town.
Tel Afar. 36 22 N., 42 0 27' E.; alt. c. 1,500 feet. Pop. 19,000. Qadha
cap., Mosul Liwa.
1 el Afar is 40 miles west of Mosul on the broad saddle between Jabal
Sinbar to the south-east and Jabal Sasan to the north-west overlooking the
Jazira plain and the headwaters of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Tharthar. It controls the
direct route from Mosul through the northern Jazira to Syria and is a
centre for the fringe of cultivation on the southern flank of the Jazira hills.
The inhabitants are mainly Shia Turkomans, who dress as Arabs and often
speak Arabic.
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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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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- 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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