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'Military Report on Mesopotamia (Iraq)' [84r] (172/226)
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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AKIF BEG.
Commander of the Turkish Second Division, Head
quarters at Sairt. Visited Jazirah and district in
the middle of 1920, and seems to have done his best
to incite the tribes against us. Kemalist and anti-
British, appointed August, 1920, in ^succession to the
quiescent Ali Beg, who appears to have tried to keep
the~trTbes '"on our frontier in order. In 1920 he
visited the Tel Afar rebels in the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Suwaidiyah
area. Is still engaged in anti-British activities.
AJIL AL ICAWAR IBN ABDUL AZIZ.
Reputed to be one of the ablest of the younger
Shammar Jarba Chiefs. Before the war interested
in cultivation at Najmah in partnership with
Muhammad al Anjaifi. Came in soon after our
occupation, and was^ ordered to remain in Mosul for
some days pending settlement of various questions.
Took fright, probably owing to intrigue in Mosul,
and bofted. Did not definitely go out against us
till about April, 1920, since when, and until recently,
he has shown himself consistently hostile. He, how
ever, did not take part in the Tel Afar rising. Came
to Baghdad on the accession of King Faisal in
August, 1921. In the early part of 1922, Faisal
appointed him paramount Chief of the Shammar
Jarba, but his position as such has not yet been
recognized.
ALI AGHA, HAJI.
One of the chief Tel Afar aghas and head of the Albu
Dola. Very wealthy and sat on the Municipal
Council. Was held to be implicated in the Tel Afar
rising; made his peace and has returned. His
brother, Abdul Rahman Agha of village Shaikh
Ibrahim, abstained from the rising, and, after the
fight betweerfTKe cavalry and the Abdah and Sayih,
brought in the British officer’s body^for which The
11th Lancers presented him with an abba. Keeps in
with HayDYunis. Is tall, s quin t-eyed, and dignified.
Ambitious and cunning. '
AQUB IBN YUSUF.
Mosul district. One of the leading men of the Albu
Hamad, a rival of Bilaihil (</.?'•) and of a shady
reputation before the war. Made early submission
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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.
- Extent and format
- 200p, 18cm
- Arrangement
The volume includes a table of contents from folios 5 to 6, and appendices and index from folios 99 to 107.
- Physical characteristics
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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- Title
- 'Military Report on Mesopotamia (Iraq)'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:108v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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