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KHARPUT , the most important town in the Kharput (or Mamuret el-Aziz) vilayet of Asia
Minor , situated at an altitude of 4350 ft., a few miles south
Tigris , on the Samsun
south
Corbulo in A.D. 65. The early Moslem geographers knew it as Hisn Ziyad, but the Armenian name was Khartabirt or Kharbirt, whence Kharput. Cedrenus (11th century) writes Xapirore. There is a story that in 1122Joscelin (Jocelyn) of Courtenay, and Baldwin II., king of Jerusalem, both prisoners of the Amir Balak in its castle, were murdered by being cast from its cliffs after an attempted rescue. The story is told by William of Tyre, who calls the place Quart Piert or Pierre, but it is a mere romance. Kharput is an important station of the American missionaries, who have built a college, a theological seminary , and boys' and girls' schools. In November 1895 Kurds looted and burned the Armenian villages on the plain; and in the same month Kharput was at-tacked and the American schools were burned down. A large number of the Gregorian and Protestant
control over the disturbed districts of Kurdistan. It has much mineral
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