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See also:ARABGIR, or ARABKJR (Byz. Arabraces) , a See also:town of See also:Turkey in See also:Asia in the Mamuret el-Aziz or See also:Kharput vilayet, situated near the confluence of the eastern and western See also:Euphrates, but some See also:miles from the right See also:bank of the combined streams . Pop. about 20,000, of which the larger See also:half is Mussulman . It is connected with See also:Sivas by a chaussee, prolonged to the Euphrates . The inhabitants are enterprising and prosperous, many of them leaving their native See also:city to push their fortunes elsewhere, while of those that remain the greater See also:part is employed in the manufacture of See also:silk and See also:cotton goods, or in the See also:production of See also:fruit . The See also:present town was built at a comparatively See also:recent date; but about 2 M. See also:north-See also:east is the old town, now called Eski-Shehr; given (c . 1021) to Senekherim of See also:Armenia by the See also:emperor See also:Basil II . It contains the ruins of a See also:castle and 'of several Seljuk mosques . The Armenian See also:population suffered severely during the massacres of x895 . (D . G . |
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