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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [12] (27/148)
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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GEOGRAPHY
[No. 90
probably number about 20,000; Hodeida has over
40,000, Menakha 7,000, and Taiz, Yerim, Dhamar, and
Ibb (Epp) about 4,000 each.
The settlement of Aden has a population of some
46,000, the Protectorate of upwards of 100.000.
In Oman the Batina coastal strip contains several
populous towns and villages, but the most thickly
peopled district, however, is the region of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Semail. Semail itself, an important settlement in the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
, is merely a group of twelve adjoining unwalled
villages, extending along the valley for ten miles. In
the north-western district of Jau is the fertile Baraimi
oasis, with a population of over 5,000. The population
of Muscat fluctuates, but in winter, when the town is
full, its total population numbers about 10,000.
In
Trucial Oman
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
, i.e., the coastal region from Ras
Musandim to El-Katr, the chief towns are Sharga,
with 15,000 inhabitants, Debei, with nearlv 20,000, and
Abu Dhabi, with over 6,000. In El-Katr the two
principal settlements on the coast are Dohah (El-
Bida a), with about 12,000. and Wakrah, with about
8,000 inhabitants, and the small islands of Bahrein
have a regular population of about 103,000. Two-
thirds of the population of the Hasa province are
settled, and mostly inhabit the oases of Katif and Hasa,
the largest town of the latter being Hofuf. The settled
population of the Sultanate of Koweit is estimated at
about 37,000.
There is only a very small nomadic element in Nejd
proper, and the great Beduin tribes which owe allegi
ance to its Emir range for the most part outside its
boundaries. Riad, the capital, has probably less than
10,000 inhabitants. The only populous district of cen
tral Arabia is Kasim, in the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Rummah depression,
which has a settled population of about 50.000. There
are over fifty urban and village settlements in Kasim,
including the two towns of Boreida and Anaize, with
over 10,000 inhabitants each, while Rass has some
3,500. The settled population of Jebel Shammar, about
4,000 of whom inhabit Hail, are concentrated between
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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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