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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [424] (435/542)
The record is made up of 1 volume (269 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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424
GAZETTEER OF TOWNS
Supplies and Commerce. —In normal times all necessary supplies
tor caravans could be purchased at Zobeir; these, except a certain
quantity of melons and lucerne, apparently came from Basra or
the neighbouring villages. The supply of drinking-water seems
to have come from the wells SE. of the town in the Dii-hamlyeh
tract. Camels and donkeys could be collected at Zobeir from the
desert Arabs : no details are available as to the numbers. Zobeir is
a market for the neighbouring Bedouin, and a centre of the carrying
trade of NE. Arabia. Juss is exported from Zobeir. Sandals and
rude saddles are manufactured.
Inhabitants. The population consists almost wholly of Sunnis
(see below under History). The carrying trade probably supports
a larger number of the population than any other industry. Wealthy
inhabitants of Basra neighbourhood reside here in the summer (see
ab , 0 J e ) and some important families of central Arabian origin are
settled here. The people of Zobeir were legally exempt from militarv
service in the Turkish Army.
Ad ™ in '' ! f tration a " d Authorities. —Zobeir was administered under
the iurkish regime by a Mudir. Small detachments of police and
so diers were maintained here. There is a hereditary Sheikh of
owns a P ro P ert y and fortified dwelling-house a few miles
JN W. of the town.
History. Zobeir was apparently a suburb of Old Basra. Here,
accoiding to tradition, was buried Zobeir, the Companion of the
prophet, who was killed under the walls of Basra in battle against
All, the originator of the Shiah sect. Zobeir's tomb naturally became
a o y place to the Sunnis, and a Sunni settlement grew up around it.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume II, Irak, The Lower Kārūn, and Luristan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, May, 1917), covering the regions of the Shatt el-‘Arab [Shaṭṭ al-‘Arab], Kārūn, Luristan, and the Tigris and Euphrates up to Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallūjah]. 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', 'Abbreviations'. There is a 'Contents' which include the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (Shatt el-‘Arab, The Kārūn, The Tigris, The Euphrates, The Shatt el-Hai);
- Land Routes (The Region of the Shatt el-‘Arab, The Tigris Valley, The Region of the Lower Kārūn River of Luristan, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between the Tigris and Euphrates Valley, The Arabian Desert);
- Railways;
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note and List of Maps;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendices (A: Notes on Weather on the Tigris, B: The Control of the Tigris Water, C: The Control of the Euphrates Water, D: Oil-Fields of the Mesopotamia and Persian Frontier, E: Note on Mules);
- Index;
- Plates;
- Maps.
The volume includes eight plates that illustrate the volume. There are also three maps:
- 'Baghdad';
- 'City Map of Baghdad';
- 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (269 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged accourding to numbered routes. There is a table of contents at the front of the volume and an alphabetical index at the back. There is also a list of plates and two maps are house in a pocket and one is a foldout.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; 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 the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:374, 374a:374b, 375:530, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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