Diarbekir, the largest town in the Kurdistan Highlands, on the Tigris, 194 m. NE. of Aleppo, and on the highway between Bagdad and Constantinople, with a large and busy bazaar.
Population (circa 1900) given as 42,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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