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

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