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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [‎66v] (137/530)

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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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128
Miles from
Mosul
87i
90i
92.
94i
97
974
LAND ROUTES
and descend a short stony track into a valley ; then rise
gradually to 3,330 ft., skirting a flat-topped spur, with
a broad spur, well watered and cultivated, on r.
Pass Bamurni, 2 m. to 1. among trees, a Kurdish village,
the home of Sheikh Mohammed, a man of influence
among the local Kurds (1888). Track now through
undulating country, dotted with low oaks and shrubs.
Aradineh (alt. 3,560 ft.), a Nestorian village of 150 well-
built houses, with good water, lying in a rice-growing
country, which also produces tobacco, wheat, and silk.
There is a Moslem village of 30 houses 1 m. away.
Round a low wooded spur by an easy stony track.
Cross a stream which flows to r., skirt a conical mound
4- m. to r., and ascend past the Christian village of
Anishik (alt. 3,210 ft.), 100 houses surrounded by orchards
and vineyards, 1 m. to 1. under a spur of the Ser Ama-
diyeh, a rocky range of hills rising to 8,500 ft., whose
upper slopes are of clay strewn with boulders, from
which several flat-topped spurs jut out to S., the Berwari
district lying on its N. side. On r. is the valley of the
Sipneh Chai, 6 m. wide, covered with vineyards and
low trees.
Kedisik, 50 houses, surrounded by a thick grove of poplars,
sycamores, and oaks. Soil here a red loam ; a good deal
of wheat is grown. Two villages about 1 m. to r.,
situated in the valley of the Qara Su, a tributary of the
Zab river. Country to r. much cut up by small ravines.
The road descends, and a small ravine is crossed at
3,200 ft. The head of the ravine to 1. is well wooded.
Some distance on, a short descent following a sandstone
ridge, and then across a small well-wooded valley (alt.
3,075 ft.) with a stream and several springs in it; track
good, over clay with scattered boulders.
Round the S. end of a plateau an outlier from the Ser
Amadiyeh.
Cross a stream by a 20 ft. single-arch stone bridge, 8 yds.
long and 6 ft. wide ; f m. up a valley to 1. is Biriazan
(alt. 3,100 ft.), 40 houses on a knoll, with orchards and
terraced fields of rice and wheat. From here a well-
frequented broad track, passing over fertile soil covered
with grass ; some brushwood and a few scattered patches
of cultivation.

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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)
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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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