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'A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)' [7v] (19/348)
The record is made up of 1 volume (170 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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10 BOUNDARIES AND PHYSICAL FEATURES
Dere and the Demirhan Dere, affluents of the Maritsa. Instead
of crossing the Maritsa, however, the frontier (according to
the Convention of July 26, 1915) now bends south-eastwards,
following down the channel of the river. The Maritsa is the
frontier between Turkey and Biilgaria for the rest of its course.
About 1£ mile ESE. of Ferejik the delta of the river begins.
The frontier follows the right or W. arm. Thus the marshes
of the Maritsa and the river mouth fall to Turkey.
Dimensions. European Turkey thus consists of a compact
area, which (excluding the peninsula of Gallipoli) is nowhere
more than 100 miles long from north to south, and 150 miles
broad from east to west. It is naturally one of the strongest
countries in the world. Its frontiers are not long, and are
defended in every direction by formidable barriers. It is
penetrated by no navigable river. 1 The country itself is
a mass of low mountains. For support it can draw upon
the resources of Asiatic Turkey. Turkey in Europe is simply
a quadrilateral of broken, difficult country with the centre
of power, Constantinople, at its south-eastern corner. Con
stantinople is itself by nature one of the strongest places in
the world, shut off from the rest of Europe by the straits of
the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. In front, it has the
rugged mountainous country of Asia Minor ; behind; it is
defended towards Europe by a wall of mountains, with valleys
which a little engineering can turn into swamps and lakes.
The Istranja Mountains. The great physical feature which
binds together the whole of European Turkey, or Thrace, is
the range of the Istranja Mountains. These consist of
masses of gneiss and granite, which begin in south-eastern
Bulgaria, where the Balkans run down to the Black Sea just
north of Burgas. From this point, the Istranja Mountains,
taking a southerly direction, form the high country at the
east end of the Roumelian Plain, and are an almost inaccess
ible wall towards the Black Sea. Steadily rising in average
height, they reach their highest point in the peak of Buyuk
1 The Maritsa is navigable for barges only, as far as Adrianople. In its
lower reaches, sailing boats of 30 tons burden are used.
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Copy of 'A handbook of Turkey in Europe, prepared on behalf of the Admiralty , Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division, January 1917.'
The volume contains thirteen photographic plates (folios 99-106) and a map (folio 171).
Contents (folio 6):
Section I
- I. Boundaries and Physical Features, p 9 (f 7);
- II. Climate, p 27 (f 16);
- III. Modern History, p 34 (f 19v);
- IV. Ethnology and Languages, p 49 (f 27);
- V. Religions, p 66 (f 35v);
- VI. Government and Administration, p 96 (f 50v);
- VII. Turkish Social Life, p 114 (f 59v);
- VIII. Economic Geography and Finance, p 142 (f 73v);
- IX. Chief Towns, p 166 (f 85v);
- X. Money, Weights and Measures, the Calendar, p 185 (f 95).
Section II. Itineraries.
- Roads, p 193(f 107);
- Railways, p 276 (f 148v).
Index, p 307 (f 164).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (170 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a table of contents at folio 6, and an index at folios 164-170.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 172; 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. An original pagination sequence is present in parallel between ff 7-170.
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- 'A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:98v, 107r:170v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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