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KERKUK, or QERQ13Q

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 755 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KERKUK, or QERQ13Q , the See also:chief See also:town of a sanjak in the See also:Mosul vilayet of See also:Asiatic See also:Turkey, situated among the See also:foot hills of the See also:Kurdistan Mountains at an See also:elevation of about l Too ft. on both See also:banks of the Khassa Chai, a tributary of the See also:Tigris, known in its See also:lower course as Adhem. Pop. estimated at 12,000 to 15,000, chiefly See also:Mahommedan Kurds. Owing to its position at the junction of several routes, Kerkuk has a brisk transit See also:trade in hides, See also:Persian silks and cottons, colouring materials, See also:fruit and See also:timber; but it owes its See also:principal importance to its See also:petroleum and See also:naphtha springs. There are also natural warm springs at Kerkuk, used to See also:supply See also:baths and reputed to have valuable medical properties. In the neighbourhood of the See also:city is a burning See also:mountain, locally famous for many centuries. Kerkuk is evidently an See also:ancient site, the citadel See also:standing upon an artificial See also:mound 130 ft. high. It was ametropolitan see of the Chaldean Christians. There is a Jewish See also:quarter beneath the citadel, and the reputed sarcophagi of See also:Daniel and the See also:Hebrew See also:children are shown in one of the mosques. (J. P.

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