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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [280] (289/432)
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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280
LAND ROUTES
Miles from
Mosul
18
19
214
22^
23|
24i
25i
26|
274
27|
281
29i
Cros_s the Ghazir by a ford a little above the village of
Qadisiyeh, 20 houses of Bot Kurds. The river is 50 yds
broad and in places 3 ft. deep, with a fairly strons?
current (May 1910). Below the village it circles rou J
to SW. 1 m. S. on the 1. bank of the Ghazir is Dusera
village. 50 houses of Bot Kurds. Wheat and barlev
cultivation. ^
Track crosses ravine with a small stream.
Top of Zirg Barda Hash. This ridge runs to the Great
Zab. Kani Zerdek, reddish hill to SW. Deep V-shaped
gorge called Bazai in the hills to N.
Barda Resh Walad, 60 houses of Achair Saba, &c. A
Mudir is stationed here. | m. to 1. is Barda Resh
Yunus, 50 houses, and 1 m. to r. Khailaki, 50 houses.
All these villages are on the same low hills which join on
to the Jebel Maqlub. (W. 0. Map 33 (1916) shows carriage-
road from Barda Eesh Ytinus direct to Qandil.
Track crosses a stream, and, shortly after, a second.
General direction N. by E.
Mound on r. Pond on 1. This place is called Qara Bey.
Track follows a marshy stream on r. Direction NE. by E.
This district is notoriously unhealthy, and hot and steamy
even in May. Going difficult owing to luxuriant vege
tation.
Mamoziu, mound 30 ft. high on r. Strong clear spring
with a few willows close to the marshy stream. Just
beyond the mound is another smaller spring which feeds
the stream.
General direction changes from NE. by E. to NE.
Clear pond formed by springs and containing fish. It is
surrounded by grassy slopes and its overflow goes S. or E.
to the plain as a small stream.
Juj ar Tepeh, mound, m. to I,
Dostak, 20 houses 2 m, SSE.
Track now lies over high country with barley cultivation.
Jujar Kebir, 50 houses ^ m. to N. Jujar Saghir, 20
houses 500 yds. SE., inhabited by Achair Saba Kurds.
Rawiyeh fort on a mound -J m. to 1. It belonged to Isma'll
Agha, a chief of the Gaiz Kurds (1910). Rice cultivation.
There is also a village of 60 houses inhabited by mixed
Kurds, To NW. and WNW. is a great open plain with
mounds and villages.
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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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