ZIARAT (" a

See also:

• MAHOMMEDAN

Mahommedan

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• SHRINE (Lat. scrinium, a case or chest for books, hence a casket; from scribere, to write, Fr. ecrin, Ital. scrigno)

shrine ")  , the summer residence of the chief commissioner of Baluchistan, and sanatorium for the European troops at Quetta: 885o ft. above the sea and33 M. by cart-road from the railway . There is a good water-supply, and the hills around are well-wooded and picturesque . ZICHY (of Zich and Vasonykeo), the name of a noble Magyar family, conspicuous in Hungarian history from the latter part of the 13th century onwards . Its first authentic ancestor bore the name of Zayk, and this was the surname of the family until it came into possession of Zich in the 15th century . It first came into great prominence in the 16th century, being given countly rank in 1679 in the person of the imperial general Stefan Zichy (d . 1693) . His descendants divided, first into two branches: those of Zichy-Palota and Zichy-Karlburg . The Palota line, divided again into three: that of Nagy-Lang, that of Adony and Szent-Miklos, and that of Palota, which died out in the male line in 1874 . The line of Zichy-Karlburg (since 1811 Zichy-Ferraris) split into four branches: that of Vedrod, that of Versony, and those of Daruvar and Csicse, now extinct .