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ARABGIR, or ARABKJR (Byz. Arabraces)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 254 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
ARABGIR, or ARABKJR (Byz. Arabraces) , a town of Turkey in
Asia
  in the Mamuret el-Aziz or Kharput vilayet, situated near the confluence of the eastern and western Euphrates, but some miles from the right bank of the combined streams. Pop. about 20,000, of which the larger half is Mussulman. It is connected with Sivas by a chaussee, prolonged to the Euphrates. The inhabitants are enterprising and prosperous, many of them leaving their native city to push their fortunes elsewhere, while of those that remain the greater
part
  is employed in the manufacture of
silk
  and
cotton
  goods, or in the production of fruit. The present town was built at a comparatively
recent
  date; but about 2 M. north-
east
  is the old town, now called Eski-Shehr; given (c. 1021) to Senekherim of Armenia by the emperor Basil II. It contains the ruins of a castle and 'of several Seljuk mosques. The Armenian
population
  suffered severely during the massacres of x895. (D. G. H.)


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