'Maps illustrating Memorandum respecting the Settlement of Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula.' [‎25v] (4/16)

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Kurds at Hie iosligati™ »•, JS ‘ = “
:i T5Ss^s|i-i S vrv;;^=
"'•’t z&tzsXzgzirzsx t VfH
form the frontier on the east. Tke ^gg and (sidon) t0 the LeWn_ Saul
This would give bur ^lyr e ) to 1 , Rivpr Ttilauv where Sur ought to be.
country, but it would be a soun p P the settled area. ^
1, n in the direction of Rafa and ^eersneua; coloured green, and this shouia
6 The Bedouin area here is “““foes ^e Tdentical with those in the Smax
probably be attached to Egypt, smc ar bitrary from the tribal point of view.
Peninsula, and the pre-war frontier is quite aroro , ^ advisable to include some of
Akaba should be left to the Arab ^ territory, so that we might be able to
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NOTES ON MAP 3.
1. Natural Areas.-ln considering ^ ^tlatfup^bU^
important to realise at the outse ^M ^ bian d D esert, and above all the Syrian part of
American or Australian lines. - private nroperty. Wells, grazing rig ,
it is not a no-man s land. Every foot ol P . , • ^ And the apportionment
ricrhts of transit, &c., are jealously defi ^ d f ice but 0 f economic necessity, just as
ofthem between the tribes is not a matter of^a F me ^ c0untrie8 . Tl , e tribal
much as the apportionment of mines, thous ands of years, and are so
areas have been worked out by I winn in a country where, on account of
arranged as to support the maximurn popu t, in the most economic method
physical characteristics, the nomadic J must therefore be based on the
of exploitation. Any arrangement of b ^ da ^ S ^ in group i ng them in one way or
permanent underlying areas. m iaxiore them or partition them,
another, and if it is to 1 , m , v, m mdaries are of course more elastic than t e
At the same time Bedoum tribal bound ^ ^ &re Qnly appr0 ximate.
frontiers of settled countries and the lines ^ includes the settled towns and
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and the tribal areas economica ly ^P en £ d ™hample, the tribes of the Shatt-al-Hai
TthtMufolfi? “Tbe'se wiU hte to be absorbed into the settled population, and
which are likely to be dependent on Mecca, especi 11^ Husein _
the ruler of which, bin Rashid ^shitelybe is at present in transition
5. The “Jezireh or /aid Are u ih , prl ' at c b es round Harran, Ras-ul-Am,
from nomadism to settlement. Tdere Arab tribes, like the Northern Shammar;
Hardin, Sinjar, and Mosul; purely ^ch areTn process of settling down.
and f fu^SSuntly tribaHn ^ mdulll Stut
oiTaccount°of a ite S oil-fields! aS"certainly cannot be f Sheikh of Koweit,
7. Koweit. —-The area shown on the + Anfr o -Turkish Convention of the
as thno^hg^^^pCTurkishmUhary posts of Safwan and Umm Kasr on the
matlant’just north of Bubian Island, ought now to be included m his dominion.