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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 933 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DEIR, or DEIR

DEIR, or DEIR Ez-ZoR, a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

ASIATIC

Asiatic See also:

TURKEY

Turkey, on the right See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

EUPHRATES (Babylon. Purattu, Heb. Perath, Arab. Frdt or Furst, Old Pers. Ufratu, Gr. Eb4 parrls)

Euphrates, 272 M. above its junction with the Khabor, See also:

LAT

lat. 350 20' N., See also:

long. 4o° 12' E. Pop. 8000 and upward, about one-tenth Christians; except in the See also:

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official classes, there are no See also:

TURKS

Turks. It is the See also:

capital and the only considerable town of the Zor sanjak, formed in 1857, which includes See also:

RAS

Ras el-'See also:

AIN

Ain on the See also:

north and See also:

PALMYRA

Palmyra on the See also:

south, with a See also:

TOTAL

total See also:

AREA

area of 32,820 sq. m., chiefly See also:

DESERT

desert, and an estimated See also:

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

population of roo,000, mostly Arab nomads. Deir itself is a thrifty and rising town, having considerable See also:

TRAFFIC

traffic; it is singularly See also:

EUROPEAN

European in See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance, with macadamized streets and a public See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden. The name Deir means monastery, but there is no other trace or tradition of the occupation of the site before the 24th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and until it became the capital of the sanjak it was an insignificant See also:

VILLAGE

village. It is an important centre for the See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of the Bedouin See also:

ARABS

Arabs, and has a See also:

garrison of about r000 troops, including a See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps of See also:

MULE (Lat. mulus)

mule-riders. It is also a road centre, the roads from the Mediterranean to See also:

BAGDAD, or BAGHDAD

Bagdad by way of See also:

ALEPPO (native Haleb)

Aleppo and See also:

DAMASCUS

Damascus respectively See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting here. A road also leads northward, by Sinjar, to See also:

MOSUL

Mosul, See also:

CROSSING

crossing the See also:

RIVER

river on a See also:

stone See also:

BRIDGE

bridge, built in 1897, the only permanent bridge over the Euphrates south of See also:

ASIA

Asia See also:

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