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MARDIN , the See also:chief See also:town of a sanjak of the Diarbekr vilayet of See also:Asiatic See also:Turkey. It is a military station on the Diarbekr-See also:Mosul road. It occupies a remarkable site on the See also:south See also:side of a conical 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 of soft See also:limestone, and the houses rise tier above tier. See also:character—he can claim the See also:protection of this See also:government, and it
may See also:respond to that claim without being obliged to explain its conduct to any See also:foreign See also:power; for it is its See also:duty to make its See also:nationality respected by other nations and respectable in every See also:quarter of the globe." Eventually Koszta was released and returned to the See also:United States. The Hiilsemann See also:letter was published and greatly increased See also:Marcy's popularity.
' See See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry L. See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James, " The See also:Black See also:Warrior Affair " in the See also:American See also:Historical See also:Review, vol. xii. (1907).
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The streets are narrow and paved in steps, while often the road-way runs along the roof of the See also:house in the tier below. The hill is almost surrounded by old walls, while on the See also:summit are the remains of the famous See also:castle of the Kaleh Shubha (See also:Lat. Maride or Marde,) which from See also:Roman times has played an important See also:part in See also:history. The Arab geographers considered it impregnable, and from its steep approaches and well-arranged defences it was able to offer a protracted resistance to the Mongolian conqueror Hulagu and to the armies of Timur. It was also for several centuries the See also:residence of more or less See also:independent princes of the Ortokid See also:Turkoman See also:dynasty. The See also:climate is healthy and dry, and See also:fruit grows well, but See also:water is sometimes scanty in the summer. Mardin is the centre of a See also:good See also:corn-growing See also:district, and is important chiefly as a border town for the Kurds on the See also:north and the Arab tribes to the south. It is the chief centre of the Jacobite Christians, who have many villages in the Tor Abdin hills to the north-See also:east, and whose See also:patriarch lives at See also:Deir Zaferan, a Syrian monastery of the 9th See also:century not far off in the same direction. The See also:population is estimated at 27,000, of whom about one-See also:half are Christians of the Armenian, Chaldean, Jacobite, See also:Protestant and Roman See also:Catholic communities. Besides many mosques and churches there are three monasteries (Syrian, Franciscan and Capuchin), and an important American See also:Mission station, with See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, See also:schools and a medical officer.
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