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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 676 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KARAMAN (anc. Laranda, a name still used by the
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Christian inhabitants)  , a
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town in the
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Konia vilayet of
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Asia
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Minor, situated in the
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plain
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north of
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Mount
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Taurus . Pop . 8000 . It has few
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industries and little
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trade, but the
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medieval walls, well preserved
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castle and mosques are interesting, and the old Seljuk medresse, or
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college, is a beautiful
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building .
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Karaman is connected with Konia by railway, having a station on the first
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section of the
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Bagdad railway . Little is known of its
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ancient
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history except that it was destroyed by
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Perdiccas about 322 B.C., and after-wards became a seat of Isaurian pirates . It was occupied by
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Frederick
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Barbarossa in 119o; in 1466 it was captured by Mahommed II., and in 1486 by Bayezid II .

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