EGIN (Armenian Agn, " the

See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring ")  , an important town in the Mamuret el-Aziz vilayet of Asiatic Turkey (altitude 3300 ft.) . Pop. about 20,000, fairly equally divided between Armenian Christians and Moslems . It is picturesquely situated in a theatre of lofty, abrupt rocks, on the right bank of the western Euphrates, which is crossed by a wooden bridge . The stone houses stand in terraced gardens and orchards, and the streets are mere rock ladders . Egin was settled by Armenians who emigrated from Van in the Iith century with Senekherim . On the 8th of November 1895 and in the summer of 1896 many Armenians were massacred here . (D . G .