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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 796 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KILLIS  , a

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town of N .
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Syria, in the vilayet of
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Aleppo, 6o in . N. of Aleppo
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city . It is situated in an extremely fertile
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plain, and is completely surrounded with
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olive groves, the produce of which is reckoned the finest oil of all Syria; and its position on the
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carriage-road from Aleppo to
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Aintab and
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Birejik gives it importance . The
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population (20,000) consists largely of Circassians, Turkomans and
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Arabs, the town lying just on the
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northern rim of the Arab territory . As Killis lies also very near the proposed junction of the
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Bagdad and the
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Beirut-Aleppo
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railways (at Tell Habesh), it is likely to increase in importance .

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