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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [355v] (713/862)
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
554
Rail: Tikrit station, 2 miles west of the town, is on the Baghdad-Mosul
standard-gauge line (Rly. 4).
Road: Unmetalled road [5] on the right bank north to Mosul. An un
metalled road north up the left bank to Fat-ha and Kirkuk. Unmetalled
road north-east across the steppe to Ain Nukhaila pass in the Jabal Hamrin.
Unmetalled road on the right bank south to Baghdad. Desert routes across
the Jazira south-west by a chain of wells to Hit and to Haditha and west
with fewer wells to Ana.
Air: Landing-ground near the railway station.
Zakho. 37 0 08' N., 42 0 40' E.; alt. c. 1,450 feet. Pop. 4,000. Qadha cap.,
Mosul Liwa. Rainfall station (P. and T.).
This small frontier town 6 miles from the Turkish border is built on a
rocky island in the Khabur river at the northern foot of the Jabal Bakhair
(photo. 38). The inhabitants consist of Kurds, Chaldeans, and Jews. It
is connected by modern bridges with both banks (p. 575). There is
another stone bridge 2 miles upstream. The town has an old Kurdish
castle, a police station, and a post office with direct telegraphic communica
tion with Turkey through Dernakh.
The town has good supplies of grain and sheep from the Zakho plain.
Good and abundant water is obtained from the Khabur.
Communications
Water: Rafts travel down the Khabur to the Tigris.
Land: Partly metalled road [n] leads south over the Geli Spi pass in
the Jabal Bakhair to Simel and Mosul. An unmetalled route west down the
left bank of the Khabur to Pesh Khabur.
Air: Landing-ground on the left bank south-west of the town.
Zubair. 30° 23' N., 47 0 43' E.; alt. c. 30 feet. Pop. 6,000.
Zubair is an oasis town, desert market, and holy city on the fringe of the
Southern Desert, 11 miles south-w r est of Basra and 2 miles north-west of
the R.A.F. establishments at Shuaiba. There are numerous wells of varying
salinity in the tamarisk groves around the town. The inhabitants are
Sunnis, mostly of the Wahhabi sect, and many are merchants from Saudi
Arabia.
Zubair adjoins the site of Omayyad and Abbasid Basra and is named
after a companion of Mohammed slain in the Battle of the Camel (p. 240)
and buried wdthin the present settlement. His tomb remained a place of
pilgrimage after the decay of old Basra, and the town was a focal point in
the tribal wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, sometimes
controlled by the Muntafiq, sometimes by the Mamluk Pashas (p. 259), one
of whom, Buyuk Sulaiman, built its walls; it acted as an outer defence of
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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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