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KHARPUT , the most important See also:town in the Kharput (or Mamuret el-Aziz) vilayet of See also:Asia See also:Minor, situated at an See also:altitude of 4350 ft., a few See also:miles See also:south of the See also:Murad Su or Eastern See also:Euphrates, and almost as near the source of the See also:Tigris, on the See also:Samsun-See also:Sivas-Diarbekr road. Pop. about 20,000. The town is built on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill See also:terrace about l000 ft. above a well-watered See also:plain of exceptional fertility which lies to the south and supports a large See also:population. Kharput probably stands on or near the site of Carcathiocerta in Sophene, reached by See also:Corbulo in A.D. 65. The See also:early Moslem geographers knew it as Hisn Ziyad, but the Armenian name was Khartabirt or Kharbirt, whence Kharput. Cedrenus (11th See also:century) writes Xapirore. There is a See also:story that in 1122
Joscelin (Jocelyn) of See also:Courtenay, and See also:Baldwin II., See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Jerusalem, both prisoners of the See also:Amir Balak in its See also:castle, were murdered by being See also:cast from its cliffs after an attempted See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
rescue. The story is told by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William of See also:Tyre, who calls the See also:place Quart Piert or See also:Pierre, but it is a See also:mere See also:romance. Kharput is an important station of the See also:American missionaries, who have built a See also:college, a theological See also:seminary, and boys' and girls' See also:schools. In See also:November 1895 Kurds looted and burned the Armenian villages on the plain; and in the same See also:month Kharput was at-tacked and the American schools were burned down. A large number of the Gregorian and See also:Protestant Armenian See also:clergy and See also:people were massacred, and churches, monasteries and houses were looted. The vilayet Kharput was founded in 1888, being the result of a provincial rearrangement, designed to ensure better See also:control over the disturbed districts of See also:Kurdistan. It has much See also:mineral See also:wealth, a healthy See also:climate and a fertile See also:soil. The seat of See also:government is Mezere, on the plain 3 M. S. of Kharput.
(D. G.
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