KHARPUT  , the most important See also:

• TOWN

town in the Kharput (or Mamuret el-Aziz) vilayet of See also:

• ASIA

Asia See also:

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

Minor, situated at an See also:

• ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude of 4350 ft., a few See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of the See also:

• MURAD, or AMURATH

Murad Su or Eastern See also:

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

Euphrates, and almost as near the source of the See also:

• TIGRIS (Old Persian Tigrd, Diklat of the cuneiform inscriptions, Hiddekel of the Old Testament, Diglath of the Targum, Digla of the Arabs)

Tigris, on the See also:

• SAMSUN (anc. Antisus)

Samsun-See also:

• SIVAS
• SIVAS (anc. Megalopolis-Sebasteia)

Sivas-Diarbekr road . Pop. about 20,000 . The town is built on a See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill See also:

• TERRACE (Fr. terrace, terrasse, from It. terraccia, terrazzo, Lat. terra, earth)

terrace about l000 ft. above a well-watered See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain of exceptional fertility which lies to the south and supports a large See also:

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

population . Kharput probably stands on or near the site of Carcathiocerta in Sophene, reached by See also:

• CORBULO, GNAEUS DOMITIUS (1st century A.D.)

Corbulo in A.D . 65 . The See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early Moslem geographers knew it as Hisn Ziyad, but the Armenian name was Khartabirt or Kharbirt, whence Kharput . Cedrenus (11th See also:

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

century) writes Xapirore . There is a See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story that in 1122 Joscelin (Jocelyn) of See also:

• COURTENAY
• COURTENAY, RICHARD (d. 1415)
• COURTENAY, WILLIAM (c. 1342—1396)

Courtenay, and See also:

• BALDWIN, JAMES MARK (1861– )
• BALDWIN, ROBERT (1804–1858)

Baldwin II., See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• JERUSALEM (Heb. ^S0-r, Yerushalaim, pronounced as a dual)
• JERUSALEM, SYNOD OF (1672)

Jerusalem, both prisoners of the See also:

• AMIR, or AMEER (an Arabic word meaning " commander," from the root amr, " commanding ")

Amir Balak in its See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle, were murdered by being See also:

• CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast from its cliffs after an attempted See also:

• RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)

rescue . The story is told by See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William of See also:

• TYRE (Phoen. and Hebr. =" rock," Assyr. S'urru, Egypt. Dara, Early Lat. Sarra)

Tyre, who calls the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place Quart Piert or See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre, but it is a See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere See also:

• ROMANCE

romance . Kharput is an important station of the See also:

• AMERICAN

American missionaries, who have built a See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college, a theological See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary, and boys' and girls' See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools . In See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1895 Kurds looted and burned the Armenian villages on the plain; and in the same See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

month Kharput was at-tacked and the American schools were burned down . A large number of the Gregorian and See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant Armenian See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy and See also:

• PEOPLE

people were massacred, and churches, monasteries and houses were looted .

The vilayet Kharput was founded in 1888, being the result of a provincial rearrangement, designed to ensure better 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 over the disturbed districts of See also:

• KURDISTAN

Kurdistan . It has much See also:

• MINERAL

mineral See also:

• WEALTH

wealth, a healthy See also:

• CLIMATE

climate and a fertile See also:

• SOIL

soil . The seat of See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government is Mezere, on the plain 3 M . S. of Kharput . (D . G .