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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Turkoman

Britannica 11th

TURKOMAN, a name applied to certain Turkish tribes still nomad or only recently settled in Transcaspia and northern Afghanistan and Persia. (See TURKS.)

Vol. 27, pp. 468-468 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

Erzingan

Britannica 11th

... e latter to the Mongols in 1 243. After having been held by Mongols, Tatars and Turkomans, it was added to the Osmanli empire by Mahommed II. in 1473. In 1784 the town was almost destroyed by an earthquake. (C.W.W.; F. R. M.)

Vol. 9, pp. 759-759 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0