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AINTAB (anc. Doliche)

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AINTAB (anc. Doliche) , a See also:town in the vilayet of See also:Aleppo and See also:ancient Cyrrhestica See also:district of N. See also:Syria. Pop. 45,000, two-thirds Moslem. The site of Doliche, famous for its See also:worship of See also:Baal (See also:Zeus Dolichenus), adopted by the Seleucids and eventually spread all over the See also:Roman See also:empire, lies at Duluk, two See also:hours N.W.;but nothing is to be seen there except a See also:mound. The See also:place was probably of Hittite origin and does not appear to have been settled by Greeks. The bazaars of Aintab are a See also:great centre for " Hittite " antiquities, found at various sites from Sakchegozu on the See also:west to Jerablus on the See also:east. The See also:modern town lies in the open treeless valley of the Sajur, a tributary of the See also:Euphrates, and on the right See also:bank, 65 m. See also:north-east of Aleppo, with which it is connected by a chaussee, passing through See also:Killis. This road proceeds east to the great See also:crossing of Euphrates at See also:Birejik, and thus Aintab lies on the See also:highway between N. Syria and Urfa-See also:Mosul and has much transit See also:trade and numerous khans. In the See also:middle ages its strong See also:castle (Hamtab) was an important strategic point, taken by See also:Saladin about A.D.

1183; and it supplied the last See also:

base from which See also:Ibrahim See also:Pasha marched in 1839 to win his decisive victory over the See also:Turks at Nezib, about 25 M. distant north-east. Lying high (3500 ft.) and swept by purifying winds, Aintab is a comparatively clean and healthy spot, though not See also:free from ophthalmia and the " Aleppo See also:button," and it has been selected by the See also:American See also:Mission See also:Board as its centre for N. Syria. " Central See also:Turkey See also:College," educational and medical, lies on high ground west. It was burnt down in 2891, but rebuilt; it has a dependency for girls within the town. Thanks to its presence the Armenian protestants are a large and See also:rich community, which suffered less in the See also:massacre of 1895 than the Gregorians. There is a small Episcopalian See also:body, which has a large unfinished See also:church, and a schismatic " catholicos," who has vainly tried to gain See also:acceptance into the See also:Anglican communion. There is also a flourishing Franciscan mission. Striped cloths and pekmez, a sweet See also:paste made from grapes, are the See also:principal manufactures; and See also:tobacco and cereals the principal cultures. The town is unusually well and solidly built, See also:good See also:stone being obtained near at See also:hand. The Moslem inhabitants are mainly of See also:Turkoman origin, and used to owe fealty to chieftains of the See also:family of Chapan Oglu, whose headquarters were at See also:Yuzgat in See also:Cappadocia. (D.

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