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ADABAZAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 167 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADABAZAR , an important commercial See also:

town in the Khoja See also:Ili sanjak of See also:Asia See also:Minor, situated on the old military road from See also:Constantinople to the See also:east, and connected by a See also:branch See also:line with the Anatolian railway. Pop. 18,000 (Moslems, 10,000; Christians, 8000). It was founded in 1540 and enlarged in 16o8 by the See also:settlement in it of an Armenian See also:colony. There are See also:silk and See also:Adair, one in 1695 and the other in 17o5. In 1703 he published the first See also:part of his Description of the See also:Sea Coasts and Islands of See also:Scotland, for the use of See also:seamen. The second part never appeared. He is thought to have died in See also:London about the end of 1722. He must have lost a considerable amount of See also:money in the See also:execution of his See also:work, and in 1723 some remuneration was made to his widow by the See also:government. Some of his work is preserved in the See also:Advocates' Library at See also:Edinburgh and in the See also:King's Library of the See also:British Museum, London.

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