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- proper noun an ancient town and citadel near present-day
Elâzığ
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Armenian Protestants have a large American mission at Kharput, which is the headquarters of all those in Armenia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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If Kharput was no longer in Saracen hands, why was a messenger here and not Sabin in person?
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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Mardin, and confined in Kharput with Joscelin, his successor in the county of Edessa, who had been captured in the previous year.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The two cities are in constant communication and Kharput still contains 30,000 inhabitants.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Because of its height and also owing to its lack of water, Kharput is being by degrees abandoned by its inhabitants, who have preferred to take up their abode in Mezré, a city about three miles distant in the plain.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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If they cluster more thickly in the vilayets of Angora, Sivas, Erzerum, Kharput, and Van, i.e. in easternmost
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906
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The widest area which might he constituted an autonomous Armenia with good prospect of self-sufficiency would be the present Russian province, where the head-quarters of the national religion lie, with the addition of the provinces of Erzerum, Van, and Kharput.
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906
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Diarbekr up the Western Tigris to Arghana, Kharput, Malatiyeh, and Asia
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