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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [153] (162/432)
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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KOUTE 25 a
153
Miles from
Baghdad
142i
when swollen with rain or melted snow, for there are
several holes in the bed. It may in a few hours become
a broad and impassable torrent, and then with equal
rapidity sink to fordable dimensions. Men and horses
are sometimes drowned in it. On the 1. bank are three
water-channels, each 6 ft. wide and 10 ft. deep, with a
small brick bridge about 4 ft. wide over each. Smaller
water-cuts without bridges occur between the river and
Tuz Khurmatli.
The Aq Su has its head near Kitshan on the S. slope
of the Qara Dagh, apparently about 47 m. ENE. of Tuz
Khurmatli, above which place its course lies through
low, broken hills, scored by ravines which open into its
valley. As it approaches Tuz Khurmatli it flows through
a gorge under the comparatively high Neft Dagh on the
1. bank. Much of its water is used for purposes of irri
gation in the neighbourhood of Tuz Khurmatli. Below
it turns SSW. and flows through a plain to join the
'Adheim Kiver about 11 m. away. Its junction with
the 'Adheim is near the edge of the Hamrln Hills, and at
the middle of the valley which the latter stream cuts
through that range. For the last 5 or 6 m. of its course
the Aq Su skirts the S. end of the great marshy area
flooded in spring by the 'Adheim and its tributaries.
Tuz Khurmatli ('Salt and Dates'). Pop. ? 3,000 (about
600 houses). T.O. ? The town lies at the mouth of
the defile between the Neft Dagh and the 'Ali Dagh,
which is traversed by the Aq Su. This defile, which
leads in the direction of Suleimaniyeh, was guarded by
an old fort, now apparently ruinous. The houses are
principally mud-built, with some of stone. There are
two khans in the centre of the bazaar. One khan has
an upper story for half its circumference; but there
are no doors, and for windows only holes in the wall.
Water scarce in l.-w. ; one spring in hills: grazing
good. Fuel plentiful. The plain in the neighbourhood
seems to be fairly well cultivated. There is a local
industry of some importance in the refining of oil from
the adjacent hills. There are about twenty stills outside
the town (six working in 1910). Oil is sent to Salahiyeh
(Kufri), Kirkuk, and Suleimaniyeh, and occasionally as
far as Mosul. A petroleum spring is marked on recent
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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'. ).
Pagination: The volume also has an original printed pagination sequence.
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