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Encyclopedia Britannica



DEIR, or DEIR

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 933 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM
DEIR, or DEIR Ez-ZoR, a town of Asiatic Turkey, on the right bank of the Euphrates, 272 M. above its junction with the
Khabor, lat. 350 20' N., long. 4o 12' E. Pop. 8000 and upward, about one-tenth Christians; except in the official classes, there are no Turks. It is the
capital
  and the only considerable town of the Zor sanjak, formed in 1857, which includes Ras el-'Ain on the north and Palmyra on the
south
 , with a total area of 32,820 sq. m., chiefly desert, and an estimated population of roo,000, mostly Arab nomads.
Deir
  itself is a thrifty and rising town, having considerable
traffic
 ; it is singularly European in
appearance
 , with macadamized streets and a public garden. The name
Deir
  means monastery, but there is no other trace or tradition of the occupation of the site before the 24th century, and until it became the
capital
  of the sanjak it was an insignificant
village
 . It is an important centre for the
control
  of the Bedouin Arabs, and has a garrison of about r000 troops, including a
special
  corps of mule-riders. It is also a road centre, the roads from the Mediterranean to Bagdad by way of Aleppo and Damascus respectively meeting here. A road also leads northward, by Sinjar, to Mosul, crossing the river on a stone bridge, built in 1897, the only permanent bridge over the Euphrates
south
  of
Asia
 
Minor
 . (J. P. PE.)


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