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njp.32101073337972	Great Britain. War Office. Intelligence Division.	A handbook of Mesopotamia : prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and the War Office Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division vol.1	1917		.txt	text/plain	88694	16003	83	in the winter months, and as south-easterly winds continue into April and May. At Baghdad the observations were made miles south of Baghdad, where observations were taken three times miles, in going from the head of the Persian Gulf to Upper Mesopotamia. Powers-Persian, Greek, Parthian, Sassanian, Arab, and Turkwhich in succession have held the Near East or Persia, as the case 700 years later, that at the time of the Moslem conquest of Mesopotamia both cities were flourishing, of great extent and importance. present war Great Britain declared herself ready to permit the extension of the Baghdad railway as far as Basra, in return for what was on the Tigris and Euphrates between Basra and Baghdad, and of any Baghdad, the official head of the Arab community in that town. Customs was one of the most important revenue agencies, producing more in Baghdad and Basra than even the land taxes.	./cache/njp.32101073337972.pdf	./txt/njp.32101073337972.txt