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TOKAT (Armenian Evtoghia, anc. Dazimon) the chiefSee also: town of a sanjak of the same name in the Sivas vilayet of See also: Asia Minor
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It is situated in the Sivas-See also: Samsun chausee, altitude 2280 ft., at the mouth of a rocky glen which opens out to the broad valley of the Tozanli Su, a tributary of the Yeshil Irmak
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It See also: rose to importance under the See also: Seljuks
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Pop. about 30,000, two-thirds Mussulman
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The See also: industries are the manufacture of copper utensils and yellow See also: leather, and the stamping of See also: colours on See also: white Manchester
See also: cotton
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Near Tokat copper See also: pyrites, with iron and manganese, See also: kaolin and See also: coal are found; but most of the copper worked here comes from the mines of Keban Maden and Arghana Maden, on the upper See also: Euphrates and Tigris
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