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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [11] (26/148)
The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1919. 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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Arabia}
POPULATION
11
tanate of Oman, 500,000;
Trucial Oman
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
, 80,000; El-
Katr (Ga,ttar), 25,000; Bahrein, 100,000; Hasa,
150,000; KoAveit, 50,000. These figures include both
the settled and the nomadic population, and in the case
of Hejaz five-sixths belong to the latter class. In addi
tion to the above, the settled population of Nejd is
estimated at 250,000, and that of Jebel Shammar at
20,000; while the Beduins of the central north, east,
and south number possibly half a million. These esti
mates give a total of between five and six millions.
No part of Hejaz is thickly populated, but its deserts
are the home of many great Beduin tribes, and it con
tains several of the most important towns in the penin
sula. Mecca, the largest town in Arabia, has a
permanent population of about 70,000, including 12,000
Indians. The inhabitants of Medina, not including
the cultivators of the surrounding oasis, number 40,000,
and those of Jedda 30,000.
The settled population is much more numerous in
Asir, where the main constituent is a highland farmer
element living in the valleys of the upper wadis. The
available descriptions of inland settlements suggest,
however, that they are merely villages with chains of
dependent farmsteads and groups of huts distributed
along the valley bottoms and sides. As in Nejran, the
Jauf of Yemen, and Hadhramaut, these settlements
serve as nuclei of tribes with fringes of unsettled clans,
which roam the intervening steppes and mountain
heights in search of pasturage.
The Yemen highlands are the most populous part of
Arabia. The inhabitants are for the most part settled
and occupied in agriculture or trade. The majority
live in close-set villages, while great tracts of mountain
land are intensively cultivated. To the east of the
highlands is a scattered pastoral population, but the
Great Desert, stretching from Yemen to Oman and
from Hadhramaut to Nejd, is, so far as is known,
totally uninhabited.
The population of Sana, the capital of Yemen, has
decreased in recent years. At present its inhabitants
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This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919.
It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditions' and 'Economic Conditions'. There is an Appendix, containing tables regarding trade in Aden, Muscat and Bahrein, 1909-1917.
There is a map 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabia', compiled by the War Office on June 1914.
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- 1 volume (69 folios)
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the map on a sleeve on the inside back cover, on number 70.
Pagination: There is also an original pagination, iv-vi, 2-127.
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- 'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:6, 1:130, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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