1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ARABGIR, or ARABKJR (Byz. Arabraccs), a town of Tutkey in Asia in the Mamuret el-Aziz or Rharput vilayet, situated near the confluence of the eastern and western Euphrates, but some miles from the right bank of the combined streams. Pop. about 20,000, of which the larger half is Mussulman. It is connected with Sivas by a chaussee, prolonged to the Euphrates. The inhabitants aie enterprising and prosperous, many of them leaving their native city to push their fortunes elsewhere, while of those that remain the greate…
- Source status
- OCR text aligned to scanned pages
- Pages
- Vol. 2, pp. 253-254