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'Field notes: Mesopotamia. General Staff, India. February, 1917.' [12r] (30/350)
The record is made up of 1 file (169 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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CHAPTER H.
GEOGRAPHY.
Boundaries.
The tract of country to be dealt with in this report com
prises the locality commonly known as Mesopotamia.
Mesopotamia as a whole is the lowland portion of the basin of
the ancient Asiatic rivers Euphrates and Tigris, in contradis
tinction to the Armenian and Kurdistan hill country, which
forms the high-lying portion of the basin, the dividing line
between the two being found in the neighbourhood of Diarbekr.
Mesopotamia itself can again be subdivided into Upper and
Lower Mesopotamia, the former, Al Jazirah (the island between
two rivers) extending south as far as Baghdad, and the latter,
’Iraq-i-’Arabi continuing to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. Our boundaries
then for this report are Upper Mesopotamia, similar in character
to Lower Mesopotamia on the north, and the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
on
the south. The eastern boundary is the Turco-Persian frontier,
which was demarcated in 1914. The approximate line, emer
ging from the watershed of a belt of high mountains east of
Baghdad, runs along the foothills about 40 miles east of the
Tigris to a little west of Muhammareh, where Persian terri
tory adjoins the Shatt-al-’Arab.
As regards the country on the west, we have the Arabian
tableland, rising very gradually from the lowland, Euphrates
country and without any definite line "of demarcation between
the- authority of the Turkish Government and the spheres of the
various independent or /semi-independent Arab tribes and
chieftains.
Geographical peatures.
Between this western desert tableland, rising to 1,000 feet
at about 100 miles from the Euphrates, and the Persian hills
on the east, nowhere is the country more than 100 feet above
sea-level, and the whole Mesopotamian zone may be regarded
as a northern extension of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, which at one time
probably reached almost to the Mediterranean. The country
has in fact gradually been filled in by the alluvia of the great
rivers and the advancing sands of the desert, and owing to this
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The file consists of a printed volume regarding the field notes on Mesopotamia. The volume was prepared on behalf of the General Staff, India and printed by the Superintendent Government Printing, India.
The volume is divided into the following chapters:
- I. History.
- II. Geography.
- III. Population.
- IV. Resources.
- V. Notes on the Turkish Army.
- VI. Maritime.
- VII. Administration.
- VIII Communications; Routes in Mesopotamia.
The volume also contains a number of appendices: A. Important personages; B. Table of Distances (in miles); C. Weights, Measures, Currency, Chronology; D. Some notes for officers proceeding to Mesopotamia; Glossary of Terms.
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- 1 file (169 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in a number of chapters and appendices listed in the contents page (folio 4).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 169; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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