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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [193v] (391/530)
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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382
LAND EOUTES
EOUTE 137
ALEPPO—TEL AHMAE (65 m.)
Yia E l -B ab and M embij
Authorities .-—Miss G-. Bell (journey of 1908), E. Sachau (journey of 1879).
This was formerly a regular caravan-route for Urfeh and Mosul
but for some years fell into disuse owing to danger from nomads.'
In 1908, however, it was coming into use again as a result of strict
measures taken by the Government.
There is no made road, but the surface is good, over undulating
loamy country as far as the Euphrates, and the going is good except
in wet weather. A Koman road, probably constructed by Septimus
Severus, apparently followed this route, and Roman milestones have
been found at Arimeh (see below, m. 40i). This Eoman road
probably followed the line of an earlier road of Seleucid times.
The country is thickly set with villages, of which very few are
marked on the maps. The district is naturally very fertile with an
adequate rainfall, and sub-soil water at no great depth nearly every
where. Deported Armenians have been settled (1915) in the neigh
bourhood of El-Bab and Membij.
Miles from
Aleppo
o
%
n
18
29
Aleppo.
Sheikh Najjar, village on the K side of the track.
Sheikh Ziyad, village N. of the road. Small chamber-
shrine and tomb on the hill-top adjacent.
Serbes, village, behind a ridge S. of the road.
Tel el-Hal, mound and village. Ruins in the neigh
bourhood.
El-Bab, village. T.O. The place lies in a valley and has
a bazaar and several khans.
There is a shrine of Nebi Hashil on a steep hill W. of the
village. Attached to the shrine is a minaret which is
a prominent landmark.
A little beyond El-Bab is the source of the Deheb, a stream
which flows S. through a shallow fruitful valley into
salt marshes (El-Sabkhah), ^15 m. S.
On the opposite side of the valley from El-Bab is a large
mound and village (Tedif ?) on the site of the ancient
Bathnae. It is a summer resort of the inhabitants of
Aleppo.
From here the road rises gently towards Membij.
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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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