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'Handbook of Yemen' [‎16v] (37/190)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (91 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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year. It is the Imam's chief garrison town and training
centre, and is said to have a civil population of about 6,000.
The valley of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Dhubawa, the uppermost of the
two great left bank tributaries of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Mur, leads into the
fertile intramontane district of Hajjah, occupied by the
Turks, who have a Kaimakam at the town of that name.
It lies due west of 'Amran and therefore does not vitiate
the statement made on page 40 that the Turks do not
hold effectively any of the highland country north of the
latter town.
(6) 'Amran itself, which we take as the dividing point
of North and South Yemen, is a considerable town lying at
a height of some 7,800 feet on the uppermost eastern slope
of the Main Ridge, which parts the plateau from the head
waters of the Wadis Dhubawa and La/a (the latter valley
lies properly in South Yemen). Though it was visited by
Glaser, we have no account of the place. It is just outside
the Hashid country on the south.
South Yemen.
Below north latitude 15°, the Yemen improves in fertility.
The Tihamah, which is at its broadest in the northern part
of South Yemen, is able to support the largest urban centre
in the province, Hodeidah, and lesser, but considerable,
towns, the two of the name Beit el-Faqih, Zebid, Hais, and
Mokhah. The 'Absiyah and the powerful Zaraniq tribe,
which hold all this Tihamah, own also several large village
settlements.
Immediately inland from Hodeidah, the country, rising
very gradually some 500 feet, is very lean and sandy; but
although a belt along the coast, about ten miles wide on an
average, continues to be little better than coralline waste,
the steeper inland slope, which begins south of the mouth
of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Siham, encloses for some distance a succession of
comparatively fertile valleys running westward. The
richest valley is that which passes Zebid. South of this,
sterility resumes till the projection of the Wasab el-Asfal

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The volume is Handbook of Yemen. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo , 1st edn, 15 January 1917 (Cairo: Government Press, 1917).

The handbook contains information about Yemen under the following headings:

  • Area;
  • Physical Character (including Relief and Climate);
  • Population;
  • Districts and Towns;
  • Agriculture and Industries;
  • Trade (including Currency, and Weights and Measures);
  • Political;
  • Yemen Army Corps;
  • Tribal Notes;
  • Personalities;
  • Communications;
  • Routes.

The prefatory note states that the handbook had been compiled by Major K Cornwallis and Lieutenant-Commander D G Hogarth, RNVR from information obtained in Cairo (especially about tribes and personalities) and from material prepared for the Arabia Handbook issued by the Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division.

The volume contains an 'Outline Map of Yemen' (f 6).

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1 volume (91 folios)
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There is a list of contents at the front of the volume (f 5).

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 93 on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages within the volume.

Pagination: the volume also has an original printed pagination sequence numbered 2-167 (ff 7-92).

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English in Latin script
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