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MARGHELAN, or MARGHILAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 705 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARGHELAN, or MARGHILAN , a See also:town of See also:Asiatic See also:Russia, situated in 4o° 28' N. and 710 45' E., the administrative centre of the See also:province of See also:Ferghana. Pop. (1900), 42,855, mostly Sarts, with Tajiks and See also:Jews. It is a very old town, with high earthen walls and twelve See also:gates, commanded by a fort. It lies in a beautiful, extraordinary fertile and well irrigated See also:district. The See also:heat in summer is excessive. The See also:principal See also:industry is the manufacture of See also:silk; camels' See also:hair and woollen fabrics are also made. The new See also:Russian town, founded in 1877, is 10 M. distant to the See also:south-See also:east, and has a See also:population (1897) of 8977.

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