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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [145] (154/432)
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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Miles from
Baghdad
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26
29
31
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36
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KOUTE 25 a
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Dokheileh, among date gardens, between the walls of which
the road passes. Ground to r. very marshy for 2 m.
Skirt the Tigris a short way to 1. The bank is heavily
dyked by an embankment, 15 ft. wide at top, 20 ft. high,
and 40 ft. at the base, revetted with brushwood. Con
tinue along dykes, cross and skirt a canal. Low
tamarisk jungle fringes the river. Several small
villages are dotted over the plain to E., each with date
gardens. The Mamudiyeh and Nahr Khalis canals
from the Diyaleh traverse the plain which stretches
eastward to the Diyaleh.
Leave the dykes, which here become lower, and trend
half-right over cultivated and rather boggy plain.
Pass Jeizani Saghir, with a large grove of palm-trees.
Jeizani Kebir is 4 m. to E.
Cross some water-channels. There are several tracks across
a cultivated plain, low and boggy with a few water-
channels intersecting it.
Zedaideh, 300 houses, hidden in date-groves, with khan.
Khan Nahrawan. Eoute turns NE. A short distance
beyond Nahrawan village is the bed of the old Nahrawan
Canal, 60 yds. wide, 10 ft. deep, in which excellent
grazing is to be found in spring. (Most of the maps
seem to make the distance up to this point about 40 m.,
but it is not known on what authority.)
Desert route to Tuz Khurmatli and Kirkuk diverges to N. leading
ma Qarfeli (21 m, ?), the Band-i- c Adheim on the 'Adheim
River (46 m. ?) through the Hamrln Hills by the Demir Qapu
defile, and thence by r. bank of e Adheim River to Tuz Klmrmatli
(73 m. ?), whence the main Baghdad—Mosul route is followed
to Kirkuk (see below, m. 142i). Supplies and water between
Nahrawan and Tuz Khurmatli are deficient, the country bein^
mainly desert. Qarfeh is a small village lying near some salt
pools. There appears to bo no permanently inhabited place
between Qarfeh and Mufti Khan at the S. end of the Demir
Qapu valley.
Route passes through cultivation, interspersed with thorn
bushes.
Cross an irrigation channel, 5 ft. wide by 4 ft. deep.
Cross another canal, 90 yds. wide by 15 ft. deep, partly
grass-grown, and with water-channel in the bed, 8 ft,
wide and 6 ft. deep, with steep sides.
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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.
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- 1 volume (214 folios)
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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'. ).
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