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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918' [202] (211/568)
The record is made up of 1 volume (282 folios). It was created in 1918. It was written in English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish and Syriac. 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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202
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Diarbehr
It is stated that in 1913 the United Kingdom, India, and Egypt
had altogether 44-7 per cent, of the total import trade, and were
followed by Austria-Hungary, France, and Germany. The total
value of imports to Diarbekr in 1913 was estimated at ,£557,060.
The Port of M
The following lines ran from Europe before the war:
Ellerman and Bucknall.
The Anglo Algerian Steamship Company (Messrs. Strick).
The Hamburg-Amerika Line (from Hamburg to Antwerp).
The Russian Steamship Navigation Company (from Odessa).
The following lines ran from Bombay :
The British India Steam Navigation Company.
The Bombay and Persia Steam Navigation Company.
The Arab Steamers, Ltd.
Karun S
Between Mohammareh and Ahwaz foreign merchant shipping
might navigate under regulations (in practice partly obsolete)
which were framed by the Persian Government in 1890. Messrs.
Lynch and the German firm of Messrs. Wonckhaus had each a
steamer on this part of the river.
Above Ahwaz the Karun was closed to foreign shipping ? but
Messrs. Lynch worked a steamer flying the Persian flag.
Arahistan
Total Value of Imports 1
Uflited Kingdom .
India 2 . .
Germany
France
Turkey .
Other Countries
1 Exclusive of the import of plant and materials for the Anglo- Persian Oil
Company. These came mostly from the United Kingdom, and partly from Indm.
2 A part of the goods included in this estimate for India (e. g. the sugar, which
accounted for 10-20 per cent of the ' Indian' imports) was of Continental (chieny
Austro-Hungarian) origin.
Imports
1910-11 1911-12 1912-13
£560,822 £457,105 £513,488
Percentage of Percentage of Percentage of
Total Imports, Total Imports, Total Imports,
1910-11 1911-12 1912-13
41 38
33 41 43
7 5*6
12 8 7
3 3 2
4 5^
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Naval Staff, Intelligence Department: November 1918). This is an updated and expanded edition of A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: August 1916) (IOR/L/MIL17/15/41/1). This is an introductory volume containing matter of a general nature giving an account of conditions in Mesopotamia, for the most part as they were before the First World War.
The volume includes a note on official use, a title page and 'Note'. There is a page of 'Contents' that includes the following chapters and sections:
- Chapter 1: Boundaries and Physical Features;
- Chapter 2: Climate;
- Chapter 3: Minerals;
- Chapter 4: Fauna and Flora;
- Chapter 5: Hygiene;
- Chapter 6: History;
- Chapter 7: Inhabitants;
- Chapter 8: Religions;
- Chapter 9: Administration;
- Chapter 10: Irrigation of Irak [Iraq];
- Chapter 11: Agriculture and Land Tenure;
- Chapter 12: Commerce and Industry;
- Chapter 13: Currency, Weights, and Measures;
- Chapter 14: Communications and Transport;
- Vocabularies;
- Index.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (282 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in numbered chapters. There is a contents page and an alphabetically arranged index.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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'. of the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:556, ii-r:ii-v, 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