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    Harpoot (Turkish: Harput) or Kharberd (Armenian: Խարբերդ, romanized: Kharberd) is an ancient town located in the Elazığ Province of Turkey. It now forms...
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    Mamuret ul-Aziz. Rev. Dr. Herman N. Barnum account of Harpoot in the 1800s, The city of Harpoot has a population of perhaps 20,000, and it is located...
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  • ruler Uzun Hasan (r. 1453–1478). In September 1465, Malik Arslan ceded Harpoot to Uzun Hasan, who had taken advantage of the worsening relations between...
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    Harput Castle (redirect from Harpoot Castle)
    Harput Castle, also known as Milk Castle (Turkish: Harput Kalesi, Süt Kalesi), is a castle located in the historical Harput neighborhood within the borders...
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  • Kızılırmak Delta Assos Ayvalık İvriz Niksar Kastels Justinian Bridge Priene Harpoot Basilica Therma Ballıca Cave Beypazarı Karatepe İzmir Zerzevan Castle Koramaz...
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    Egypt), a mobile siege tower is shown in the battle scenes. In modern Harpoot, Turkey, an artistically Akkadian style stone carved relief dated circa...
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  • Mugar family of Greater Boston. Mugar was born March 5, 1901, in Kharpert (Harpoot) in the Mamuret-ul-Aziz Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey)...
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    Residence at Mount Holyoke College in 1928 and 1929. Frame was born in Harpoot in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey), on October 29, 1878, to American...
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    Armenians being led away by armed guards from Harpoot, where the educated and the influential of the city were selected to be massacred at the nearest...
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    Armenians being led away by armed guards from Harpoot, where the educated and the influential of the city were selected to be massacred at the nearest...
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    Tbilisi in Georgia. He studied medicine at a Russian missionary school in Harpoot, graduating in 1915, and perhaps then went on to study in Russia itself...
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    day. Henry H. Riggs, Days of Tragedy in Armenia: Personal Experiences in Harpoot, page 158, 1997. Erickson 2001, page 119 Erickson 2001, page 140 Erickson...
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  • Sarim al-Din Ibrahim, who sought Mamluk recognition for his domains near Harpoot, to assassinate the ruler, Khalil. Ghars al-Din was killed in an ambush...
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  • Sarkes Tarzian Born (1900-10-05)October 5, 1900 Harpoot, Elazığ Province, Ottoman Empire Died October 7, 1987(1987-10-07) (aged 87) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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    grandparents immigrated to the United States after fleeing their hometown of Harpoot (present-day Turkey) in the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian genocide...
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  • were in covert support of Jahangir and Uzun Hasan. Jahan Shah reached Harpoot, while the rest of the Qara Qoyunlu forces passed the Euphrates and marched...
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    genocide. In his book Days of Tragedy in Armenia: Personal Experiences in Harpoot, 1915-1917, Riggs provides an important eyewitness account of the genocide...
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    Armenian genocide. Jacobsen wrote the Diaries of a Danish Missionary: Harpoot, 1907–1919, which according to Armenian genocide scholar Ara Sarafian,...
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  • May 22, 1921, during Sunday school and sent off to Harpoot on May 31. When he arrived in Harpoot on June 20, he was already near collapse. He had contracted...
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    to drive the Greeks on. Thousands perished in the snow. The road from Harpoot to Bitlis was lined with bodies." Several times, the American relief director...
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  • wall, and a garden with mulberry trees. Leslie A. Davis became consul of Harpoot in 1914; Davis stated that this mission was "one of the most remote and...
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  • dispatched him to administer Homs in inner Syria. In May 1429, Mehmed lost Harpoot to the Aq Qoyunlu, who parried his and the Mamluk forces' attempt to capture...
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    Anna (née Chooljian). Mugar's ancestors had emigrated to America from Harpoot, Turkey, near the Euphrates River. His great-grandfather on his mother's...
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    Hovhannes Bujicanian (born, Çüngüs, 1873, - Harpoot, 1915) was an Armenian academic and teacher in the Ottoman Empire. He was a defender of the Second...
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    of Kayseri. Burhān al-Dīn was captured in a fight near the mountains of Harpoot and executed by Qara Osman. Some sources give the date as July–August 1398...
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    Stratford Co. p. 240. "Danish Photo Exhibit Documents Armenian Life In Ottoman Harpoot and Mezreh; Diaries of Maria Jacobsen to Be Issued". Armenian Reporter...
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  • Joscelin were captured by the Muslim Turk leader Belek Ghazi and taken to the Harpoot Castle. The queen hired a band of fifty Armenian soldiers who, posing as...
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  • stretching from Marash to Elbistan in 1337. The next year, Qaraja also captured Harpoot, Darende, Gemerek, and Gürün from the Eretnids. Qaraja's ambition to become...
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    Henry Harrison (1997). Days of Tragedy in Armenia: Personal Experiences in Harpoot, 1915-1917. Gomidas Institute. pp. IX. ISBN 1-884630-01-4. Jeff Jacoby...
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  • Herman Norton Barnum Born (1826-12-05)December 5, 1826 near Auburn, New York Died 1910 Harpoot, Turkey Occupation Christian missionary...
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