See also:

• DEIR, or DEIR

DEIR, or DEIR  Ez-ZoR, a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic See also:

• TURKEY

Turkey, on the right See also:

• BANK

bank of the See also:

• EUPHRATES (Babylon. Purattu, Heb. Perath, Arab. Frdt or Furst, Old Pers. Ufratu, Gr. Eb4 parrls)

Euphrates, 272 M. above its junction with the Khabor, See also:

• LAT

lat . 350 20' N., See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long . 4o° 12' E . Pop . 8000 and upward, about one-tenth Christians; except in the See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official classes, there are no See also:

• TURKS

Turks . It is the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital and the only considerable town of the Zor sanjak, formed in 1857, which includes See also:

• RAS

Ras el-'See also:

• AIN

Ain on the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north and See also:

• PALMYRA

Palmyra on the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south, with a See also:

• TOTAL

total See also:

• AREA

area of 32,820 sq. m., chiefly See also:

• DESERT

desert, and an estimated See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of roo,000, mostly Arab nomads . See also:

• DEIR, or DEIR

Deir itself is a thrifty and rising town, having considerable See also:

• TRAFFIC

traffic; it is singularly See also:

• EUROPEAN

European in See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance, with macadamized streets and a public See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden . The name Deir means monastery, but there is no other trace or tradition of the occupation of the site before the 24th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and until it became the capital of the sanjak it was an insignificant See also:

• VILLAGE

village . It is an important centre for the See also:

• CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of the Bedouin See also:

• ARABS

Arabs, and has a See also:

• GARRISON
• GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD (1805-1879)

garrison of about r000 troops, including a See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps of See also:

• MULE (Lat. mulus)

mule-riders . It is also a road centre, the roads from the Mediterranean to See also:

• BAGDAD, or BAGHDAD

Bagdad by way of See also:

• ALEPPO (native Haleb)

Aleppo and See also:

• DAMASCUS

Damascus respectively See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting here . A road also leads northward, by Sinjar, to See also:

• MOSUL

Mosul, See also:

• CROSSING

crossing the See also:

• RIVER

river on a See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge, built in 1897, the only permanent bridge over the Euphrates south of See also:

• ASIA

Asia See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor . (J .

P .