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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 762 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ASKABAD, or ASKHABAD

ASKABAD, or ASKHABAD , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian central See also:

ASIA

Asia, See also:

capital of the Transcaspian See also:

province, 345 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail S.E. of See also:

KRASNOVODSK

Krasnovodsk and 594 from See also:

SAMARKAND

Samarkand, situated in a small See also:

OASIS (Gr. &toss, the name given by Herodotus to the fertile spots in the Libyan desert: it probably represents an Egyptian word, cf. Coptic ouahe, ouih, to dwell, from which the Egyptian Arabic sod is derived)

oasis at the N. See also:

FOOT

foot of the Kopet-dagh range. It has a public See also:

LIB

lib,rary and a technical railway school; also See also:

cotton-cleaning See also:

WORKS

works, tanneries, See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick-works, and a See also:

MINERAL

mineral-See also:

WATER

water factory. The See also:

trade is valued at £250,000 a See also:

YEAR

year. The See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population, 2500 in 1881, when the Russians seized it, was 19,428 in 1897, one-third Persians, many of them belonging to the Babi See also:

SECT

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