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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. IV. 1917' [222r] (448/530)
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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JEZIRET-IBN'OMAR—KHOI
K
439
Commercially, Jezlret-ibn-'Omar has been mainly important as a
point of transit for caravans travelling between Mosul and Diarbekr,
and as a distributive centre for goods brought down from the N. by
river. Its market is much frequented by the Kurds of the neighbour
ing hills. At Kharpot, E. of Jezlret-ibn-'Omar, are coal and bitumen
deposits.
Inhabitants. —The population is mainly Kurdish, but before the war
there were a number of Christians—chiefly Chaldaeans and Jacobites
or Jacobite Uniates—who were estimated at 100 households. The
French Dominican Mission at Mosul had a dispensary here before
the war and maintained schools in the neighbouring villages.
The Miran Kurds, who dwell in the neighbourhood in winter and
spring, migrating towards Van in the summer, have a bad reputation.
They are said to number about 1,000 families.
Administration. —Jezlret-ibn-'Omar is the head-quarters of a
Its Kaimmakam is under Diarbekr.
History. —The site of Jezlret-ibn-'Omar, the ancient Bezabde, has
for many centuries been inhabited, its antiquity being probably due
to the convenience of the river-crossing. Alexander crossed here
when he was marching against the Persian army which was concen
trating near the Great Zab before the battle of Arbela (Erbil).
Later the Romans held it for some time. In recent history the
town for long was held by Kurdish chiefs, who took toll of the
nomads as they passed from the plains W. of the Tigris to the
mountains and back again.
KHOI. In Persia (Azarbaijan) to the K of lake Urmia, and
91 m. NW. of Tabriz. Alt. 3,600 ft. Pop., including suburbs,
estimated at 60,000; 12,000 houses, of which 4,000 in the town
exclusive of suburbs. (Another and probably later estimate gives
a population of 35,000, of which one-third lived within the town
proper.) P., T.O. (lines to Dilman, Maraud, &c.). Wireless station
(reported 1912).
Routes.—
(i) To Dilman, SW., and to Qotur and Van, W. (See Itoute
76 a.)
(ii) To Tabriz, SE., and to Kizil Dizeh, &c. ? NW., part of the
great caravan-route to Trebizond. (See
Persia, p. 353.)
(iii) For other routes see Gazetteer vol. ii, p. 324.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:262v, back-i
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