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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [26r] (51/122)
The record is made up of 1 file (59 folios). It was created in 1919?. 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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49
2C
The next group contains the following twelve tribes :—
Tribe.
Number of
families.
Locality.!
Remarks.
1. Musik
(?)
[At bend of Tigris,
S.E. of Diarbekr]
Only known from ac
counts of previous
travellers.
2. Penjinan
500
[N.E. of Sairt]
Noted for fighting
qualities ; some said
to be Yezidi.
8. Keskoli
(?)
[N. of Musik]
Uncertain;perhaps sub
division of Penjinan.
4. Pouran
200
[N.W. of Keskoli] ...
Semi-nomadic agricul
turalists.
5. Shaykhodanli ...
200
Exact locality un
certain
6. Bekran
500
In winter near Diar
bekr, in summer
near Sairt
7. Reshkotanli ...
500
[W. of Diarbekr] ...
Nomads.
8. Beshiri
(?)
Between Sairt, Mey-
farkin, & Diarbekr
Sedentary.
9. Tirikan
650
Between Euphrates
and Haini
Sedentary; wealthy,
intelligent, and fond
of bright clothes;
well-disposed to
Armenians.
10. Kuzlichan
(?)
Exact locality un
certain
Perhaps immigrants
from Dersim mount
ains.
11. Gurus
(?)
[W. of Tigris and
N. of Diarbekr]
12. Elia ...
(?)
[Between Arghana
M a‘d e n and
Euphrates]
Nomads.
All these tribes appear to consist of semi-nomadic or sedentary Kurds,
who have migrated at some unknown period through the Bitlis pass into
the undulating land which is suitable both for tillage and for pasturage
between Diarbekr and the Bitlis Su ; they probably lived formerly in the
l Localities enclosed in square brackets are taken by a comparison of Sir Mark
Sykes’ outline-map with other sheets ; those not enclosed in brackets are given in his
own words.
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The file consists of a publication concerning Kurdistan and the Kurds. Produced and published by the General Staff, India, and printed in Mount Carmel, Palestine. It provides an edited collection of information based on the reports of military and political officers Captain C F Woolley, and Major Edward Noel (dated c 1919), and a paper written by Sir Mark Sykes in 1908.
It is divided into the following sections:
- Kurdistan and the Kurds - including boundaries, topography, and its inhabitants;
- the Kurdish tribes - including their locality, rough numbers, character, prominent families, and allegiances;
- Kurdish tribes outside Kurdistan - between Erzingan [Erzincan] and Sivas and in the neighbourhood of Marash [Kahramanmaraş], in Anatolia Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey. , and in Syria;
- the Kurdish Movement for independence - history, origins, and causes;
- additions and corrections.
Also includes one map on folio 61: 'KURDISTAN AND THE KURDISH TRIBES'.
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- 1 file (59 folios)
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The file consists of a single publication. A contents page is at the front of the volume (f 2).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio, with 61, which is a folded map attached to the outside back cover; 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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- Title
- 'Kurdistan and the Kurds'
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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