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YUZGAT

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 947 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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YUZGAT , the

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CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

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TOWN

town of a sanjak of the same name in the

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ANGORA, or ENGURI

Angora vilayet of

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ASIA

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ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude 4380 ft., situated 105 M . E. of Angora, near the

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head of a narrow valley through which the Angora-

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Sivas road runs . The town was built largely out of the ruins of Nefez Keui (anc . Tavium), by Chapan Oghlu, the founder of a powerful Pere

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BEY (a modern Turk. word, the older form being beg, cf. Pers. baig)

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FAMILY

family . There is a

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trade in yellow berries and

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MOHAIR

mohair . The sanjak is very fertile, and contains

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GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good breeding-grounds, upon which horses, camels and

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CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle are reared . The

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POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population, about 15,000, includes a large Armenian community .

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