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'A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)' [89r] (182/348)
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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CONSTANTINOPLE
173
Gate, from whence a road and tramline lead to Ak Serai. The
road is narrow and winding and passes through Turkish quarters
exclusively.
Street 4. The Valley of the Lycus separates the Edirne (Adri-
anople) Gate (alt. 253 ft.) from the Top Gate. From here runs
a tramline joining the roads already described S. of the Sultan
Bayazid Mosque. This road passes a number of mosques,
including the large Sultan Mehmed (Mehmed Fati Djami)
Mosque, which is situated on the slope of a bill at an alt. of
208 ft., and has a dome, alt. 230 ft. Between this mosque and
the Ministry of Finance the street has some europeanized shops.
Street 5. The most N. gate is that of the Aivan Serai. (From
a small gate S. of this, narrow roads lead to the Golden Horn
road.) A tramline runs NW. past the gate to the Turkish
suburb of Eyub, and SE., keeping to the shore of the Golden
Horn as far as the military station, to St. Sophia. A
great part of the quarters through which the road and tramline
pass was destroyed by the fire of 1911. This road passes at
first through the Turkish quarter of Egri Kapu, then the poor
Jewish quarter of Balata, in which is situated a religious house
belonging to the Monastery of Mount Sinai. Phanar, the
next quarter, is Greek, and contains the Greek patriarchate
and schools, and the Church of St. George. The other quarters
are Turkish. From Yeni Kapu, shortly after passing the
Greek ecclesiastical buildings, a road leads uphill SE. past
the Mosque of Sultan Selim, the remains of an ancient reser
voir, and a market-garden, to the Sultan Mehmed Mosque
(see above). Farther on there is a large tobacco
factory
An East India Company trading post.
to the
SW. and a cold-storage depot to the NE. of the road. A cross
road is next reached (Un Kapan Kapu) ; the Old Bridge
(Mahmud Bridge : see below) runs NE. across the Golden
Horn to Galata, and a road runs SW. towards the Ak Serai
quarter. The road then leaves the shore of the Golden Horn
and turns up towards the residence of the Sheik el-Islam and
the group of buildings described above. Before reaching the
residence it passes the military steam flour-mills. After leav
ing the residence, the road passes a commercial quarter and
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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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- Title
- '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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- Open Government Licence