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( 3 .) This frontier, besides keeping in Irak the country of the tribal Assyrians (a
question which has been fully discussed in section II above) also takes into
consideration the economic and ethnographical dependence upon Mosul of
the following Kurdish communities (a reference is here requested to the
sketch map attached to Appendix III of Sir Percy Cox’s despatch) :—-
(a.) The Pinianish of Ghal—The Agha of the Chal, though nominally
a Turkish mudir, is much under the influence of Amadia, and
owing to the return of the Salabekka (Lower 1 iari) and the
Tkhuma to their homes north of Chal, he is at present forced to
respect the wishes of the Amadia administration.
(b.) The Tovi. —A small tribe of merchant caravan owners, living in a
little valley west of Baz, who trade in the mountains by means
of capital supplied by Mosul merchants.
(c.) The Doski Bala of Oramar. — This is a section of the main Doski
tribe inhabiting the Dohuk district of Mosul, whither the sheep
of the Doski Bala go in winter. The fortunes of the people of
Oramar are much wrapped up with those of the Jelo and Baz
Assyrians, and it was a mixed tribal force of these Assyrians
and Oramaris that was led by Mar Sergius, the Bishop of Jelo,
to the rescue of the Kaimakam of Amadia, when the latter was
attacked last autumn, at Turkish instigation, by tribesmen from
Zibar and Muzuri Bala. If the Oramaris are returned to the
Turks after this demonstration, they will suffer severely at their
hands.
(d.) The Herki Sedentary Section, who live between Oramar and the
Girdi and are a settled section of the big nomad trihe of Herki
which winters at Arbil and summers in Persia.
(e.) The Girdi, who live on both sides of the Zini-e-Berdi Pass, are a
section of the Girdi who are domiciled near Arbil and Koi
Sanjak. The northern section under discussion belongs to the
“ Diwana confederation, which follows the Shaikh of the
Barzan tribe located within Irak. It inter-marries with the
Baradost and Shir wan tribes of Rowanduz, to which district it
should properly belong. The Girdi is the northernmost tribe
of Kurds who depend upon Irak ethnographically and
economically.
V .—Possible Modifications in the New Extreme Limit.
Modification “A ” (marked on map by a continuous blue line).—The first
modification might be to relinquish the claim to those of the Guli and Sindi villages*
which lie to the north of the Avaguzi and Zawita highlands and which are at present
under the power of the Goyan tribe and are of little value. Billo contains forty
Christian families, Shirid ten, Merga seventy, and Baiju sixty. The rest of the
population which it is proposed to relinquish are Moslems. This modification amounts
to a confirmation of the present boundary as actually administered bet ween Hezil and
Khabur. A large sketch map is attached which shows the villages and tribes concerned.
After crossing the Khabur, the line would then continue as in the “ extreme limit ”
proposal, practically along the 37° 30' latitude line.
Modification “ B ” (marked on map by a continuous yellow line).—This proposal is,
besides abandoning tbe Guli and Sindhi villages under “ A,” to abandon the line of the
head of the watershed The boundary between adjacent drainage basins. divide between Gavar and Oramar, with all the advantages set
forth under tbe “ extreme limit ” proposal, and to withdraw to a line which would not
include more than the Assyrian tribes of the Jelo, Baz, and Tkhuma and would thence
continue eastwards along the true old administrative boundary as was intended in the
“ first proposal ” of Sir Percy Cox’s despatch. Owing to insufficient information, the
true old administrative boundary was, as already explained, incorrectly drawn on the
photographic appendix to that despatch.
Modification “ C ” (marked on map by yellow bars and crosses '.—This proposal is,
in addition to the two surrenders under “ B,” to surrender the wedge-shaped area
north of Rowanduz and abutting on the Persian frontier, as suggested in the “ second
proposal ” of Sir Percy Cox’s despatch and described in section VI of that despatch.
* Billo, Aivil, Azosh, Roboski, Khodana, Hadrish, Shirid, Merga, Baiju.

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