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'A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)' [107v] (219/348)
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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194
ROADS AND TRACKS
expected to yield £T30,000. In that year it was decided to allot
5 per cent, of the total revenues of the Vilayet to the purposes
of road-making and repair : the total amount available should
have been £T60,000. It is doubtful, however, whether more than
half this sum actually was available, and even this was largely
drawn upon for other purposes. At the same time there was
wastage. The road from Adrianople station to the town in
summer is several inches thick in dust. The authorities of
the city, however, decided to build a tramway along this road
and actually spent money in 1908 in getting an expert engineer
from Vienna, who could only report that a tramway on such
a road was impossible. Negative evidence as to the roads
in general can be drawn from the ambitious programme issued
by the Ministry of Public Works in 1909 for the development
of the natural resources of the country. In his report on the
roads the Minister attributed their inefficiency to the want of
a uniform plan of construction, and to the neghgence of the
responsible provincial authorities. An additional cause was
the bad system of giving so many days’ labour in lieu of paying
the road tax. The programme laid down concerned Macedonia
and Asia Minor rather than Thrace ; but the general reforms
would have benefited Thrace. These included the division of the
empire into eight inspections, each composed of a certain number
of Vilayets, and the establishment of a road commission in
each Vilayet. The road commission was to include a staff of
engineers and road men. The Commission suggested that a num
ber of selected young men should be sent to receive technical
instruction in Western Europe, in order to provide the requisite
number of officials to carry out the reforms. The programme
involved a large foreign loan ; and in 1910 the Young Turks
voted nearly £2,000,000 for road construction during the next
two years : a contract was made with a French company.
But since this programme was laid down Turkey has been
in a state of war or the confusion following war, and little has
been done except in the construction of certain military roads.
For the re-making of the Gallipoli-Uzun Koprii road, in 1915,
Italian workmen were imported.
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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)'
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- 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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