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'Military Report on Iraq. Area 2 (Upper Euphrates)' [37r] (78/140)
The record is made up of 1 Volume (66 folios). It was created in 1924. 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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Baqqarah.
The Baqqarah is a large loose confederation of sections
which have become almost independent tribes, have little or
no internal cohesion, and are split by inter-sectional feuds.
The portion of the tribe dealt with in this report is that
settled on the left bank of the Euphrates between Raqqa and
Busairah. This, however, only forms approximately one-half
of the Baqqarah, the remainder being on the Khabur river and
in the Jazirah as far north as the Jabal Abdul-Aziz.
The majority of the Baqqarah on the Euphrates are culti
vators and produce wheat, barley and maize in considerable
quantities. Most of their crops are sent to upstream markets
including Dair-al-Zor. About 25 per cent, of the tribe are
sheep breeders and move into the Jazirah for winter grazing
between the months of September and April.
This tribe does not now come into our area of occupation
but is under the Syrian Government. The general tone of the
Baqqarah has up to the present been anti-British, and in
December, 1919, when Ramadhan al Shallash entered Dair-
al-Zor, they were represented in his following.
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This volume prepared by the General Staff of the British Forces in Iraq was published as part of a series of ten similar military reports on Iraq after the First World War. The report covers the history, geography, climate, demography, natural resources, ethnography and important personalities of the Upper Euphrates region of Iraq. The report's focus is on the military capabilities of various populations, their political allegiances, and the basic economic infrastructure of the region.
- Extent and format
- 1 Volume (66 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume includes a table of contents on folio 4, and an index from folios 114-119.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 68; 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 volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'Military Report on Iraq. Area 2 (Upper Euphrates)'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:66v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence