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

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