'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [202r] (408/530)
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 145 b-146
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except the rise from Rum Qal'ah out of the Euphrates valley, but it
is not stated whether the track is passable for wheels.
Water is plentiful, and small supplies might be got, though much
of the country is too barren for cultivation. There is no information
as to fuel.
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Rum Qal'ah. Leave by a very steep track.
Reach the plateau. The track now descends gradually in
a WNW. direction through stony country, with some
pistachio trees. The plain is well cultivated, and extends
up to the Qara Dagh in the N.
Pass Tel Qara Eaba. Traces here of an ancient made road.
Keroghlu village. The Merziman dial, which enters
the Euphrates at Rum Qal'ah, is on the 1.
Track runs WSW.
Cross the Merziman Chai near Ergidereh. village.
Yeni Kbi village.
Country becomes more stony and hilly.
Haji Morleh, Turkish settlement in a narrow valley.
Track now winds through the deep stony valley in a SW.
direction. Cultivation wherever the soil admits of it.
Reach a rise from which the Nimrud Dagh can be seen in
the distance.
Track now descends through cultivation into the valley.
Maghlilt village. Follow a stream, still in a SW. direc
tion.
Cross the stream by a bridge. Suvas village.
Track now continues SW., crossing valleys and hills with
vine cultivation.
Cross the Sajur by a bridge and enter Aintab.
EOUTE 146
KILIK—BEHISNI (28^ M.)
Authority : —Sykes, I)ar-id-Islam (journey of 1903). Distances to Fal from
a sketch-map only.
This is a good mule-road. Water is plentiful: fuel scarce : no
information as to other supplies.
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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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