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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [95] (104/432)
The record is made up of 1 volume (214 folios). It was created in 1917. 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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THE EUPHEATES
96
The Dilaim are a powerful tribe found in the desert on both sides
of the river from Fellujeh almost to Anah. They own cultivated
land in the Euphrates Valley (their paramount chief, 'Ali Suleiman,
has a house and palm garden at Eamadiyeh), and are sheep-breeders
on a large scale, but not camel-breeders. They are in close alliance
with the Amarat Anazeh, and at feud with the Shammar of the
Jezlreh to the N. and the Shiah tribes of Irak to the S. They are
noted robbers.
The western division of the northern Shammar, the predominant
tribe of the Jezlreh, is found near and north of Deir, and along and
W. of the Khabur. The leading sheikhs of this western division
are the sons of Abdul Mehsin and Mohammed. In 1911 Asi, son
of Ferhan, was appointed paramount chief of all the Mesopotamian
Shammar : he keeps to the Mosul district.
The half-settled tribes of the Euphrates Valley cultivate the soil
more or less, but retain to varying degrees the traces of their former
nomadic habits. Most of them spend at least the summer in tents.
Even where villages have been built they are liable to be abandoned
and to reappear on new sites. The half-settled Arabs form large
tribes, but they play little or no part in the politics of the desert,
and are usually obliged to pay tribute to the nomads. The following
half-settled tribes may be mentioned: the Yeghaifeh (from Anah to
Irsi), the Bu Kemal (Irsi to Meyaddln), the Abu Mueyt and Abu
Hleyhil (round Meyaddln), the Baggarah (in summer near Deir,
a despised tribe), the Afadle (in winter W. of the Belikh), the
Qeys (near the Belikh and up-stream to above Meskeneh), the
Weldeh (in summer near Qal'ah Jabir), the Ugeydat (scattered from
the Khabur to Damascus, accounted base-born by the Bedouin).
The 'Ugeil (caravan men and guides of Arabia) are much employed
in the caravan traffic between the Euphrates and Syria.
For the inhabitants of the towns see Gazetteer
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume III, Central Mesopotamia with Sourthern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, January, 1917), covering the Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallujah] to Mosul and Meskeneh [Maskanah], the Lesser Zāb, the country east of the Tigris towards the Persian frontier, and the routes running westward from the Euphrates valley across the Syrian Desert. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, and appears to be based on official and unofficial publications and maps which are cited in a bibliographical section in the volume. This volume was supplemented with corrections and additions in June 1918 (see IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/5).
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of 'Contents' which includes the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (The Tigris and the Lesser Zāb, The Euphrates);
- Land Routes (The Tigris Valley with Region to East, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, The Syrian Desert);
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendix;
- Index;
- 'Sketch Map of Routes', which includes 'City Map of Baghdad' (f. 212) and 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes, Volume III' contained in a pocket.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (214 folios)
- Arrangement
This volume is arranged according to numbered routes. There is a page of contents and an alphabetical index. There are two maps housed in a pocket.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover and terminates at the inside 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 (except for the front cover, where the folio number is located on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also has an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:422, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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