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OVERLOOKING THE CITY OF* URFA, AT THE) HEAD OF THE PLAINS OF MESOPOTAMIA 



The experiences of this city of 45,000 people, the Edessa of the Greeks and the seat of 

 a dynasty of its own before the Christian era, are typical of Turkish misrule. It was in the 

 Armenian Gregorian Cathedral, the largest building in the city, that the Moslems and Kurds, 

 in 1896, massacred more than 1,000 Armenians. The victims were suffocated with smoke 

 from burning carpets and mats soaked in petroleum. The so-called Mosque of Abraham in 

 Urfa marks the traditional birthplace of the Hebrew patriarch. 



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