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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [85r] (174/530)
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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Miles from
Dilman
120
ROUTES 76 a, b 165
gradient, enters a rocky ravine, goes round the Zemzem
Dagh, passing Shah. Bagh, 50 Armenian houses, m.
to r., and through Aq, Koprii, a suburb of Van.
Van.
ROUTE 76 b
EAZI—VAN (41 m.)
Via Sei
AuthorityMilitary Report on E.T.A., vol. ii. Route 90 (report of 1900 here sum
marized). W.O. Map (E.T.A., sheet 19).
General direction, W. This is shown on the W.O. map as passable
for wheeled traffic, and it may be that light vehicles could be taken
over it before the war. It goes W. from the pass which lies W. of Razi
(see Eoute 76 a at m. 69) and crosses the Chul Chemen plain to Seivan
and Van. It is 41 m. in length as compared with 56 m., the length
of the driving road (Route 76 a). There is good grazing along it, and
water is plentiful. The distances are taken from the W.O. route
book, and differ considerably from those given on the W.O. map.
After leaving the Chul Chemen (alt. 7,510 ft.) it traverses a col
leading to an undulating country, skirting some rough hills to S. It
crosses Boute 78, passes some Kurd villages, and enters the Seivan.
basin, 16f m. (see Eoute 76 a at m. 99^). Here it passes the village
of Zarauis, ISfm., some 2 m. to S., and goes through Seiyan,
21^ m., 60 houses of Kurds and Armenians. Leaving the Seivan
basin the road crosses a broad spur coming from S. and after
going up a stream flowing S. from the Erkat Dagh for a short
distance, enters the plain of Ermanis, 25^ m. This is a small oval
plain (alt. 7,250 ft.), in which is the village of Ermanis. From the
plain a short, steep track that needs improving leads to the top^ of
a ridge (alt. 7,690 ft.), 28 m., beyond which is an open ravine which
gradually becomes steep and rocky, the track for IJ m. at this place
being impassable for carts. This ravine apparently leads SW.
At about m. 30 another valley is entered, and is followed in a W.
direction by a track fit for guns. Here a steep horse-track joins
from Vozgipak and the Kashlsh Gol. At m. 30;} the Van road
passes Varukh, ^ m. to r. in an open valley to N., by which an easy
cart-track leads to Lake Archag near Adiaman (see 76 a,
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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'.
- Extent and format
- 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.
- 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. IV. 1917'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:262v, 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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