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‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’ [15r] (34/366)
The record is made up of 1 volume (179 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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lower end of another small island called Umm-as-Saba. Just
below them the settlement of Bandar Nasiri, or Nasiriyah, has
sprung up.
From Nasiri the general direction of the river is south by
south-west. It makes a series of extraordinary bends as far
as the tomb of ’Ah bin Hussain, which is some 40 miles in a
straight line from Nasiri, though approximately at 575 miles
of the river’s course. From this point onwards its bends become
less frequent and pronounced, eventually reaching the Shatt-al-
’Arab at a point situated 25 to 30 miles in a direct line to the
south-west of ’Ali bin Hussain. At 593 miles it throws off the
Salmanieh or Salmaneh canal, now almost dry, from its left
bank; and at 3 miles further down, opposite the island of Hair,
there is another outlet from the left bank, called the Marid-al-
A ma, which runs inland for about a mile and forms the mouth
of the Fallahiyah-Maiid canal, which is supplied with water by
the Jarrahi river. On the south-west bank of this creek at
J of a mile from the entrance, are some heaps marking the site
of the old village of Marid. A dry hollow, containing bushes at
the end towards the Karim, connects the Marid-al-A’ma with
the Qanaqeh branch of Hor Musa; at one time, no doubt, the
* Kanin discharged a part of its waters by this route to the sea.
On the right bank, opposite to the Marid" creek, is the site of the
old Cha’b settlement of Sableh.
At 607 miles the Bahmanshir channel leaves the Karim on the
left bank and follows an independent course to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
;
this channel vas once the main course of the hLarun. Its present)
debouchment into the Shatt-al- Arab, 2 miles further down at
610 miles, is called the Halfar, or canal. It was originally a
small canal cut for irrigation purposes, but the river, finding this
course more appropriate, wore down the dam which regulated
its out-take of water and eventually burst through in full force,
thus forming a new and more important channel for its final
exit into the estuary.
(b) and (c). Floods and Navigation.—For remarks under these
two headings, vide Chapter VIII, Biver Routes.
[d). Bridges. At the present time, 1923, there is only one
bridge across the Karim at Band-i-Qir. During the war a flying
bridge was constructed at Ahwaz but this has since been re
moved. This bridge was situated 2 miles upstream of Ahwaz.
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Confidential military report on Arabistan [Khūzestān] compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed by the Government of India Press, 1924.
The report contains nine chapters (numbered I-IX) and seven appendices (A-G) as follows:
- chapter I – history (general, ancient, modern, political attitude);
- II – geography (boundaries, area, general description, altitude, mountains, rivers and fords, towns and villages, tracts of land, islands, fortified places, political divisions);
- III – climate (general, temperature, winds, rainfall, mirages, general medical and sanitary conditions, principal diseases, conditions affecting aviation and military operations);
- IV – economic resources (general, labour, agriculture, livestock, manufacture, power, commerce, customs, banking, revenue, tables of imports and exports);
- V – ethnography (general, population, races, religions, languages);
- VI – tribes (general, armed forces, tribes in relation to possible centres of disturbance, political attitudes, military considerations, tribal action, punitive measures, recapitulation, lists of tribes);
- VII – personalities;
- VIII – communications (general, communications by sea, inland waterways, railways, telegraphs and telephones, post, aerodromes and possible aerodromes, wireless and visual communication, principal routes by land, sea and river);
- IX – administration (general, government establishments, northern province, southern province);
- appendix A – bibliographical notes;
- B – weights and measures, coinage and time;
- C – glossary of topographical terms;
- D – Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] regulations;
- E – concession granted to the “Nasiri Company”;
- F – customs schedule;
- G – Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
The volume contains a single map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 180).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (179 folios)
- Arrangement
A contents list (ff 4-5) and index (ff 171-177) reference the report’s 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 181; 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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