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'Gazetteer of Arabia Vol. I' [576] (613/1050)
The record is made up of 1 volume (523 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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576
EUPHRATES
Name.
(1) On which side
situated ; (2) distance
by stream, and (3) average
direction from the
last place.
> Nature.
R emarks.
Dagharah Canal
Left bank
35 miles.
South-east.
(This is the posi
tion of the head.)
See article Dagharah.
of the river. On
the right bank
opposite to the site
of Babylon is the
village of 2 Ananah.
For 2J months in
summer the Eu
phrates at Hillah and
in the reach above
it is quite dry, and
the boat bridge of 15
pontoons at Hillah
settles down upon
the sand. In winter,
after rain, the stream
at Hillah is 60 yards
broad and less than
four feet deep.
For about 20 miles
below Hillah there
are date groves and
many villages: one of
the latter called
Imam Hamzah (I) is
not to be confound
ed with the village of
the same name
below. The palms
then cease and for 10
miles the country has
a less cultivated and
prosperous appear
ance. Towards the
end of latter stretch
are numerous forti
fied hamlets, 200
to 300 yards apart.
Then follow 5 miles
of still more desolate
country, where
many of the hamlets
are now deserted and
where the fighting
towers are beginning
to show symptoms of
decay. The villages
on the right bank
belong to the Wisa-
mah tribe and one of
them, called Shukri,
marks the boun
dary between the
two main sections
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Volume I of III of the Gazetteer of Arabia. The Gazetteer is alphabetically-arranged and this volume contains entries A through to J.
The Gazetteer is an alphabetically-arranged compendium of the tribes, clans and geographical features (including towns, villages, lakes, mountains and wells) of Arabia that is contained within three seperate bound volumes. The entries range from short descriptions of one or two sentences to longer entries of several pages for places such as Iraq and Yemen.
A brief introduction states that the gazetteer was originally intended to deal with the whole of Arabia, "south of a line drawn from the head of the Gulf of 'Aqabah, through Ma'an, to Abu Kamal on the Euphrates, and to include Baghdad and Basrah Wilayats" and notes that before the gazetteer could be completed its publication was postponed and that therefore the three volumes that now form this file simply contain "as much of the MSS. [manuscript] as was ready at the time". It further notes that the contents have not been checked.
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- 1 volume (523 folios)
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Foliation: This volume's foliation system is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1:312, 312a:312d, 313:456, 456a:456f, 457:460, 460a:460f, 461:572, 572a:572f, 573:586, 586a:586f, 587:634, 634a:634f, 635:662, 662a:662f, 663:858, 858a:858f, 859:910, 910a:910f, 911:974, v-r:viii-v, back-i
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