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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [369] (378/432)
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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RAQQAH—KOWANDUZ
369
General Description. —The town is remarkably situated on a sloping
tongue of land, very abrupt in parts, which runs down to the canon
of the Kowanduz Chai; this tongue is separated from the country
eastwards by the Kalund, a great gully with precipitous sides which
joins the Rowanduz Chai just above the town. An easy track, by
which the narrow streets of the town can be avoided, leads from the
S. end of the gorge to the Persian route in the river valley J m. E, of
the town.
At the top of the town is a suburb called Qalah Teluk on a plateau
among gardens. It contains the house of Sa'id Bey, villas of
Turkish officers, and the summer residences of some of the in
habitants.
The town itself is long, steep, and straggling, and is in two parts,
of which the upper is the larger. Between the two parts is a tract
less steep than the rest, with the summer quarters of the Kaimmakam
and the palace of Abdullah
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
. The T.O. and winter are in
the lower town.
The streets are narrow, and the houses are built across them in
some places, while in others the road goes over the roof. To make
a wheel road some of the houses would have to be levelled.
Sanitation is quite unknown.
A stream flows through the town. Below the lower town the
Kowanduz Chai is crossed at a deep and narrow gorge by a wooden
bridge of 18 ft. span without parapets. The Kalund gorge is crossed
by a similar wooden bridge of 20 ft. span. Both are passable for
mules but not for guns.
About 1,500 yds. to the N. the town is commanded by an old
Kurd blockhouse, and at a short distance are the insignificant ruins
of a castle on a yellow, bluff, steep-sided knoll. They were con
structed about eighty years ago by Mohammed
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
. (See below :
Administration and Authorities.) To SE. is the Beni Hindawln,
a steep ridge rising to about 8,000 ft., wooded near the summit.
Supplies and Commerce. —There is little evidence as to supplies.
Water seems to be plentiful, and a little wine is made, but practically
none is exported. Grapes may be had either fresh or dried.
Trade is mostly in gall-nuts, wool, and goat's hair.
Inhabitants. —The inhabitants are mostly Kurds. There are about
40 households of Jews and about a dozen Christians who have come
for trade, unaccompanied by their families.
Administration and Authorities. —Eowanduz is the seat of a Kaim
makam in the Kirkuk Sanjaq of the of Mosul. In 1910 the
Kaimmakam was a Moslem Greek. The Kam includes the following
four Nahiyes (1910):
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:422, back-i
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