"استطلاعات في بلاد الرافدين وكردستان وشمال غرب بلاد فارس ولرستان في الفترة من أبريل إلى أكتوبر ١٨٨٨، كتبها المقدم ف. ر. مونسيل، فرع الاستخبارات. يوجد مجلدان. المجلد الأول: تقرير سردي ووصف للمدن الكبرى والطرق المؤدية منها. شيملا: فرع الاستخبارات، إدارة قائد الإمداد والتموين، ١٨٩٠" [و‎‎٩‎٣] (٣١٢/١٩٠)

The following are the principal districts and the distribution of the
Nestorians in the Kurdish mountains. The Tiari District lies on the right
bank of the Zab, north-east of Amadiyeh, and consists of several long narrow
valleys running from the Hartoshi mountains^ in a south-east direction towaids
that river. .
Chal and Tkhoma and Salabakka are on the opposite bank.
To the north-east along the river are Walto, Tal, Lewin and Diz. South
east of these are Boz and Jelu.
To the west of Amadiyeh is the Supna valley, the water of which nows
towards the Khabur, and the north-west is Berwari valley. Christian villages
are also scattered along the foot of the hills in the Khabur valley near Zakho
and as far as Jazirah. .
Kwaneb, Aradina and Keni are the chief villages in the Supna valley.
There is a marked contrast as regards industry, and superior cultivation
between these and the Kurdish villages, dotted about between them. Shaikh
Muhammad, a Kurd of great reputed sanctity, lives at Bamurni in this valley.
He is held in much reverence by the people, and has a considerable influence
over them. . . ,
There are said to he 16 Christian villages in the Supna valley, some ot which
are Chaldean. On the plain between Zakho and Jazirah and along the foot of
the Judhi-Dagh are Feishkhabur, a large village of Old Chaldeans at the
junction of the Khabur and Tigris, Tel Khaban, Wasit, Nahrawan, Girki
Budrn, Hassan and Mansuriyah, the last two containing many Protestants.
Between Derguleh and Shernakh to the north of the Jndih-Dagh are
the ruins of several Christian villages, never rebuilt since Bader Khan Beg's
massacre in 184<3.
To the south-east of Amadiyeh, the only Christian village is Kwaneh.
In Zebari are only a few families in the Kurdish villages and the ruins of
several churches.
The district nearest to Julamerk is Liz with 11 villages—Akos, Beshma-
mash, Chalchi, Orma, Mardish, Kurshi, Suwah,
Madis, Shimsha, Sukurran, Cherickurria. Three
of these are in Julamerk. Beyond this to the
south-east is JBaz with five villages—Urgabi, Gundei, Shaonthi, Huteta,
Urwantos, with Tui and Anda, which are Kurdish.
Beyond Baz is Jelu, divided into Greater Jelu, with nine villages, and Lesser
Jelu, with seven villages, besides the Kurds.
In Lewin are eight villages—Alkik, Der, Hergil,Nurgussa, Balakan, Khun-
deki, Govki and Zeranis.
On the Zab below Diz is Tal, a sort of dependency of Tchob, with six vil
lages—Bedari, Rebett, Bekurk, Talano, Mushkoner and Bakht.
Below this, but to the east of the river, lies Tchob, dived into Tkhoma
Lava (higher) and Tkhoma Gawaia (lower), with six Christian villages—Gun-
dukhta, Mazra, Tkhoma, Gawaia, Birijai, Gisseh and three Kurdish-Gereresh,
Distribution
Nestorians,
of mountain
Zawitha and Hashit.
Below Tal comes Walto, a dependency of Tiari, with four villages—Nara,
Surta, Gunda and Kaiziana.
Then to the west of the Zab is Tiari district, with over twenty villages
and hamlets, the number of families being estimated at 2,500.
The principal villages are Ashitha (500 houses) near the head of the valley
Lizan (180 to 200 houses) on the right bank of the Zab, and Zawitha mid
way between the two. Balseh, Yedi, Shuta, Yedi Gemam are villages in the
same valley.