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ZIARAT (" a Mahommedan shrine ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 979 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZIARAT (" a See also:Mahommedan See also:shrine ") , the summer See also:residence of the See also:chief See also:commissioner of See also:Baluchistan, and See also:sanatorium for the See also:European troops at See also:Quetta: 885o ft. above the See also:sea and33 M. by See also:cart-road from the railway. There is a See also:good See also:water-See also:supply, and the hills around are well-wooded and picturesque. ZICHY (of Zich and Vasonykeo), the name of a See also:noble Magyar See also:family, conspicuous in Hungarian See also:history from the latter See also:part of the 13th See also:century onwards. Its first See also:authentic ancestor See also:bore the name of Zayk, and this was the surname of the family until it came into See also:possession of Zich in the 15th century. It first came into See also:great prominence in the 16th century, being given countly See also:rank in 1679 in the See also:person of the imperial See also:general Stefan Zichy (d. 1693). His descendants divided, first into two branches: those of Zichy-Palota and Zichy-Karlburg. The Palota See also:line, divided again into three: that of Nagy-See also:Lang, that of Adony and Szent-Miklos, and that of Palota, which died out in the male line in 1874. The line of Zichy-Karlburg (since 1811 Zichy-Ferraris) split into four branches: that of Vedrod, that of Versony, and those of Daruvar and Csicse, now See also:extinct.

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