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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. II. 1917' [476] (487/542)
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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APPENDIX D
THE OIL-FIELDS OF MESOPOTAMIA AND THE
PEKSIAN FRONTIEK
P osition and P rospects of P etkolifeeous A reas
, ^ 1 ' < ? m r i lie - P ® rsla . n to Kirkuk there extends, among the
hills of the Turco-Persian borderlands, a belt of country which is in
some parts certainly, in others probably, petroliferous. At present
oil is worked on this belt, (a) in the Shushtar district, where the
Maidan-i-Naftun wells of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company produce on
a considerable scale, and (b) comparatively slightly in the Kirkuk
Qasr-i-Shlrln—Mandali area.
Much of Luristan, lying between these two worked areas, is
probably petroliferous, and oil is actually found on the surface in
a tew places.
It is to be noticed that at its southern end the belt is continued by
the oil-bearing region which lies N. of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
(2) The Tigris valley between the Hamrln Hills and Mosul is
petroliferous. The deposits in this area may be connected (along the
mu i } Wlth the Kirku k—Qasr-i-Shinn oil-district.
(d) ihe Euphrates valley from Hit up to the neighbourhood of
eir-ez-Zor is petroliferous. Oil also occurs in the desert S. of
Nasinyeh (Tel Mughaiyir), and may be present elsewhere in the
country E. and S. of the Lower Euphrates. Lastly, it is to be
noticed that the Arabian side of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
is in parts
petroliferous {e.g. at Koweit and at Bahrein).
,, ^ -Redwood in his work on Petroleum (3rd edition, 1913) describes
the oil-bearing belt of Mesopotamia as running from Hit to Deir
th^V f K t0 1 , f ? ar ^ 01 N - of Zakho, 'and eastward (?) from
this hue to beyond the Persian frontier'. (The last phrase seems
t0 ^ Kirkuk -Qasr-i-ShlrIn-Mandali
tnnkraf f • the 0ll - bearin g country reaches from the
Euphrates to the Tigris across the Jezlreh (in the neighbourhood
it would seem of the Sinjar hills) appears to rest on the fact that the
fw fl! condlfclons ^fke the presence of oil not improbable, and
hat the usual concomitants of oil, salt and sulphurous waters, are
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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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