'Kurdistan and the Kurds'

Title:

'Kurdistan and the Kurds'

Creator:

Author: General Staff Branch, India

Date:

1918/1920

Description:

Abstract: The file consists of a publication concerning Kurdistan and the Kurds. Produced and published by the General Staff, India, and printed in Mount Carmel, Palestine. It provides an edited collection of information based on the reports of military and political officers Captain C F Woolley, and Major Edward Noel (dated c 1919), and a paper written by Sir Mark Sykes in 1908.It is divided into the following sections:Kurdistan and the Kurds - including boundaries, topography, and its inhabitants;the Kurdish tribes - including their locality, rough numbers, character, prominent families, and allegiances;Kurdish tribes outside Kurdistan - between Erzingan [Erzincan] and Sivas and in the neighbourhood of Marash [Kahramanmaraş], in Anatolia, and in Syria;the Kurdish Movement for independence - history, origins, and causes;additions and corrections.Also includes one map on folio 61: 'KURDISTAN AND THE KURDISH TRIBES'.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio, with 61, which is a folded map attached to the outside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Military intelligence
Kurds
Tribes

Geographic region:

Kurdistan

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00013c_ar
81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00013c_en
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/22
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/22

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