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MARSIVAN, or MERZIFUN (anc. Phazemon?)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 776 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MARSIVAN, or MERZIFUN (anc. Phazemon?) , a town in the Amasia sanjak of the Sivas vilayet of
Asia
 
Minor
 , situated at the foot of the Tayshan Dagh. Pop. about 20,000, two-thirds Mussulman. It is a centre of American missionary and educational enterprise, and the seat of Anatolia College, a theological
seminary
 , and schools which were partly destroyed in the
anti
 -Armenian riots of 1893 and 1895. There is also a Jesuit school.
Marsivan
  is an unusually European place both in its aspect and the commodities procurable in the
bazaar
 .
MARS-LA-TOUR, a
village
  of
Lorraine
 , between Metz and the French frontier, which formed
part
  of the battlefield of the 16th of August 1870. The battle is often called the battle of Marsla-Tour, though it is more usually named after
Vionville
 . (See Metz; and FRANCO-GERMAN WAR.) At Mars-la-Tour occurred the destruction of the German 38th brigade.


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