Imprint: Ordnance Survey, 1916. Distinctive Features: General map of Mesopotamia [Iraq] showing in green the approximate areas for proposed irrigation scheme. Shows rivers, railway lines with Turco-Persian boundary indicated by dash-dot line. Includes table of reference at lower left of the ...
This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Naval Staff, Intelligence Department: November 1918). This is an updated and expanded edition of A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: August 1916) (IOR/L/MIL17/15/41/1). This is an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Classical, and Turkish
This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume II, Irak, The Lower Kārūn, and Luristan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, May, 1917), covering the regions of the Shatt el-‘Arab [Shaṭṭ al-‘Arab], Kārūn, Luristan, and the Tigris and Euphrates up to Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallūjah]. The v...
Distinctive Features: Plan of Baghdad showing principal roads, old city walls, the telegraph, horse tramway and railway lines with terminus, the location of government and public buildings including markets, theatres, liquor shops and brothels. Public buildings numbered and lettered for referen...
Distinctive Features: Plan of Baghdad issued by the Admiralty War Staff showing principal roads, outline of the old city walls, the telegraph, horse tramway and railway lines with terminus and camel loading bank; the government and public buildings including police post, barracks and possible b...
Distinctive Features: Map of Mesopotamia [Iraq] issued by the Admiralty War Staff showing land and river routes roads across the region; routes labelled for reference and described in detail in the Itineraries. Includes a table of reference at the bottom left-hand corner.
This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume III, Central Mesopotamia with Sourthern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, January, 1917), covering the Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallujah] to Mosul and Meskeneh [Maskanah], the Lesser...
Distinctive Features: Plan of Baghdad issued by the Admiralty War Staff showing principal roads, outline of the old city walls, the telegraph, horse tramway and railway lines with terminus and camel loading bank; the government and public buildings including police post, barracks and possible b...
Distinctive Features: Map of Upper Mesopotamia [Syria, Lebanon, Iraq] showing railway lines, as well as land, subsidiary and river routes. Routes labelled for reference and described in detail in the Itineraries. Includes a table of reference at the bottom margin. ‘Anazeh Arabs’ [Anazzah] and...
This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Corrections and Additions to Volume III: Central Mesopotamia with Southern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Naval Staff Intelligence Department: June, 1918). It supplements Volume III (IOR/L/MIL/17/41/4) which includes routes along the middle Tigris and ...
