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MARSIVAN, or MERZIFUN (anc. Phazemon?)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 776 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARSIVAN, or MERZIFUN (anc. Phazemon?)  , a See also:town in the See also:Amasia sanjak of the See also:Sivas vilayet of See also:Asia See also:Minor, situated at the See also:foot of the Tayshan Dagh . Pop. about 20,000, two-thirds Mussulman . It is a centre of See also:American missionary and educational enterprise, and the seat of See also:Anatolia See also:College, a theological See also:seminary, and See also:schools which were partly destroyed in the See also:anti-Armenian riots of 1893 and 1895 . There is also a Jesuit school . See also:Marsivan is an unusually See also:European See also:place both in its aspect and the commodities procurable in the See also:bazaar . See also:MARS-LA-TOUR, a See also:village of See also:Lorraine, between See also:Metz and the See also:French frontier, which formed See also:part of the battlefield of the 16th of See also:August 1870 . The See also:battle is often called the battle of Marsla-Tour, though it is more usually named after See also:Vionville . (See Metz; and FRANCO-See also:GERMAN See also:WAR.) At Mars-la-Tour occurred the destruction of the German 38th See also:brigade .

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