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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [171r] (346/530)
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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ROUTES 116 b-117 a
387
Miles from
VeirSn
Sliehr
48
54i
59
63
Guermelhebeli, 25 Kurdish houses.
In the next few miles the track crosses the Ghurs Su.
Herzem village. Good place for a camp. Water from
a stream, and shade. There is some irrigation here and
a fair amount of cultivation in the neighbourhood. The
Kurds hereabouts belong to the Ghurs tribe.
Surface of track good, crossing a dry nullah at one part.
Begin the ascent to Mardln. Track rough and stony and
very steep in parts, occasionally paved in a succession of
shallow ledges.
Mar din.
KOUTES 117 a, b, c
VEIRAN SHEHR—DIARBEKR
G eneral N ote
The normal routes between Veiran Shehr and Diarbekr would be
[a) via Mardln (see Routes 116 a, b, c, and 95 a) or by Derek
[Boutes 116 a and 95 c). The following are cross-country routes, of
which 117 a may be the easiest. This route is the most easterly,
117 c being apparently the most westerly of the three.
KOUTE 117 a
VEIRAN SHEHR—DIARBEKR
B etween the M azi D agh and Q ara.teh D agh
Authority ; —Information communicated with regard to a journey made in
December 1908.
This route leaves the Veiran Shehr—Derek road, apparently
in the neighbourhood of Arbeta (see 116 a, m. 171): but this
is very uncertain. It takes a line between the Mazi Dagh on the E.
and the Qarajeh Dagh on the W., passing W. of Derek. The country
traversed is less broken than that on the Derek—Diarbekr road. On
the edges of the plain, before the spurs of Qarajeh Dagh are crossed,
a small Kurdish settlement is passed, near which is a limestone
cave with a spring having a perennial water-supply and a stream
running out of it. This would be a suitable place for troops to
MES. IV y
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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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- '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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