'Military Report on Mesopotamia (Iraq)' [11r] (26/226)
The record is made up of 200p, 18cm. It was created in 1922. 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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(Joinmunication.-— (i) Hoad.—To Tel Afar and Mosul
via Ain Ghazal; fit for L.A.M. cars in dry
weather.
To Tel Afar-Mosul via Ain Sino and Khan Hararat;
ht tor pack.
IV- 11 ', al Z ° r; for i ord vans in dry weather,
io Nisibin via Samokho; fit for A.T. carts. Arab
arabanas use this route frequently.
( 11 ) By Signal. From hill north-east of town and from
house in town helio signalling to Political
bungalow, lei Afar, is possible,
there is no telegraph or post office.
Umding Grounds. —There is no space available for such
m the immediate vicinity of the town. Possibly a landing
f mii n e d S o C u°th d of " plai “ wuth ° f Sai ' dens '
Camping Grounds.—C&mving grounds exist for one
cavalry regiment on threshing floors immediately south of
town and for one cavalry regiment on hill north-west of
town Billets for one company are available in school
and houses of town. South of gardens camping ground
is unlimited about 2 miles from town.
Jrf//cm^m^W.-Until May, 1920, Balad Sinffir was
headquarters of a nahiyah in the Tel Afar qadha It
has now been made headquarters of a qaimmaqam.
KismiN.—Nisibin is situated on the right bank of the
daghjaghah Su, about 55 miles west-south-west of Jazirat-
nm-Omar. Nisibin in Roman times formed a most
important outpost of their eastern empire. It bore high
reputation for its river, gardens and cereals, but its
amenities were somewhat overshadowed by the existence
of numerous scorpions and mosquitoes.
The modern town is small and stands in the plain,
ough immediately north of it the surface rises gradually
to foothills of the Tur Abdin plateau. South of Nisibin
fhe Jaghjaghah flows in three channels, spanned by an
old bndge of stone of twelve arches, serviceable b/t fit
aucinf r T PaC ^q rai ; Sp 0 u t - T esfc of the town is situated an
< cient Jacobite church and to south-west the ruins of the
old town There are only a few stone houses, the majority
being flat-roofed mud hovels. The Aleppo railway has its
th™ 1 m U o S st ln nf N Jb )m i- alt 5 OUgl i 1 recent re Ports indicate
that most of this line has been either destroyed or
ismantled. The station lies a few miles north of the
hTr^ck, K pT by the Turkish milit . ar y authorities as
acks. Railway communication has been suspended
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This volume was produced for the General Staff of the British Forces in Iraq and was published in 1922. It covers the Northern Jazirah area of Iraq which is one of ten areas covered by the volumes produced in the same series. The various chapters of the book cover history, geography, climate, natural resources, ethnography, tribes, and personalities of the Northern Jazirah. The volume also covers the communications and strategic and tactical infrastructure of the area. All of the content is produced with the aim of providing basic military intelligence to forces operating in Iraq at the time.
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- 200p, 18cm
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The volume includes a table of contents from folios 5 to 6, and appendices and index from folios 99 to 107.
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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 111; 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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- 'Military Report on Mesopotamia (Iraq)'
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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