Important Notice

I am independent researcher unconnected to any institution. All the information on this website is provided for free.

However maintenance, research, and hiring servers costs a lot of money. So if you like the site and it is useful for you please consider to make a donation to keep it online.

All donations whatever ther amount, are welcome and help me to continue my work. Pay with your credit card, securely, via Paypal.

Important Notice

I am an independent researcher unconnected to any institution. All the information on this website is provided for free. However maintenance, research, and hiring servers costs a lot of money.

So if you like the site and it is useful for you please consider to make a donation to keep it online. All donations, no matter how small, are welcome and help me to continue my work.

Pay with your credit card, securely, via Paypal.

Tiny, but charming and informative report from a journey from Erzurum, via Muş, and Diyarbakır to Urfa and on to Aleppo/ Haleb. In the mountains of Kulp, Diyarbakır, Pollington visits a camp of yezidi Kurds of which left a vivid description.

Pollington travelled in the same period as Brant, Shiel and Suter, and his report was, together with those of his colleagues published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society.

Viscount Pollington, whose is also known as John Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough, was a British MP, who visired the region before.

to the report →︎

Mountains south of Muş in Spring (2010)

© Jelle Verheij, 2010