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MARGHELAN, or MARGHILAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 705 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARGHELAN, or MARGHILAN  , a
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town of
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Asiatic
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Russia, situated in 4o° 28' N. and 710 45' E., the administrative centre of the
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province of
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Ferghana . Pop . (1900), 42,855, mostly Sarts, with Tajiks and
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Jews . It is a very old town, with high earthen walls and twelve
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gates, commanded by a fort . It lies in a beautiful, extraordinary fertile and well irrigated
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district . The
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heat in summer is excessive . The
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principal
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industry is the manufacture of
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silk; camels'
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hair and woollen fabrics are also made . The new
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Russian town, founded in 1877, is 10 M. distant to the
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south-
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east, and has a
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population (1897) of 8977 .

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