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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [‎66r] (136/530)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (263 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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ROUTE 67 b
127
Eound the head of a deep wooded ravine to r. (alt. 3,735 ft.).
Descend a 15 ft. ledge and pass
Zauka (alt. 3,395 ft.), a Km-dish village of 50 houses on
a wooded plateau. From a point somewhat to S. of the
village the W.O. map shows the road to be passable
for wheeled traffic. An alternative track, reported in
June 1888 to be better than that detailed here, branches
off more to the W., rejoining at the Plr-i-Dawud (see
m. 80|). Follow a zigzag track down a spur to a
V-shaped ravine-
Cross and recross the stream-bed in the ravine (alt. 2,480 ft.);
then along a narrow ledge in a clay slope, the track
going through hills covered with low oaks and brush
wood.
Pass Guzlin, ^ m. to r., a Kurdish village of 50 houses,
surrounded by cornfields. Low oaks and brushwood on
the hill-sides. Descend a gravelly spur covered with
brushwood, passing a stream in a deep narrow ravine
to 1.
Alt. 2,530 ft. Descend a 3-ft. ledge in sandstone for
200 yards.
Cross the Sipneh. Chai (alt. 2,715 ft.). This stream is
a tributary of the Khabur Su, which it joins above
Zakho. It is crossed by a bridge, the Pir-i-Dawud,
58 yds. long, with a planked centre span, 4 ft. wide and
27 ft. long, and 4 masonry arches with a 6-ft. roadway.
This bridge is untrustworthy, and it is best to ford the
stream, which was 20 ft. wide and 6 ins. deep in June.
Here the better alternative track from Zauka (m. 76^
above) rejoins. From the bridge the road consists of
a broad gravelly track, with an easy gradient, which
follows a grassy slope among low shrubs and vineyards
and then winds up to
Daudiyeh (alt. 3,015 ft.), village of 40 Chaldean and
20 Kurdish houses, overlooking a deep valley to the SE.
It is the head-quarters of a Kaimmakam under Mosul.
A mud fort, 100 yds. square, loopholed, with walls 3 to
4 ft. thick at the bottom, built in the earlier half of last
century, but long dismantled, lies ^ m. to the E. The
road runs E. across a broad plateau. For the route
connecting Daudiyeh with Zakho see 90 c.
Pass Keni, a Christian village of 50 houses, in a grove on r..

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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume IV, Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April, 1917), covering Mesopotamia north of the line joining Rowanduz, Mosul, Meskeneh [Maskanah], and Aleppo, up to Van, Bitlis, Diarbekr, and Mar‘ash. 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.

The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', and 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of contents which includes the following sections:

  • Introduction;
  • Itineraries;
  • River Routes (The Tigris, The Euphrates);
  • Land Routes (Central Kurdistan, Routes between Mosul and Diarbekr, Routes between the Plain of Diarbekr and the Moutains to North and West, Routes between the line Diarbekr-Mardīn and the Euphrates, Interior of Norther Jezīreh, West of the Jaghjagha Su, The Euphrates Valley and Country West thereof, Across the Taurus between the Euphrates and Mar‘ash, and Aleppo-Mar‘ash);
  • Railways (Aleppo-Ras el-‘Ain-Tel Ermen);
  • Gazetteer of Towns;
  • Bibliographical Note;
  • Transliteration of Names;
  • Glossary;
  • Index;
  • Plates;
  • 'Sketch Map of Routes'.

The volume contains 15 plates, which illustrate the content of the various chapters, and 1 map entitled 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes'.

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1 volume (263 folios)
Arrangement

The volume is arranged by numbered routes. There are pages of contents, an index, and a list of plates. There is one map house 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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