Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word HARPUT
HARPUT
Definitions of HARPUT
- Alternative form of Kharput.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using HARPUT in a Sentence
- In addition to becoming home to large Irish and Russian populations, Peabody developed a large community of laborers hailing from the Ottoman Empire, mostly Turkish and Kurdish speakers from the region of Harput, now known as Elazığ.
- Between 1201 and 1203, Rukn ad-Din with detachments under the command of his brother, Mughis ad-din Tughril Shah of Elbistan, Mengujekid Bahram Shah of Erzincan, possibly with the help, of the Harput Artuqids as well as local Turkmen warriors, captured Erzurum and replaced the vassal of Georgia, Saltuk, with his brother Mughisuddin Togrul Shah.
- Harput and its surrounding region were part of the kingdom of Urartu at its maximum extent, and the Urartians may have been the first to build a fortress here.
- The railroad grant applied to an extension of the old Anatolian Railway from Angora (now Ankara) to Sivas, with a branch to the port of Samsun on the Black Sea; a line from Sivas to Erzurum and thence on to the Persian and Russian frontiers, with branches to the Black Sea ports of Tirebolu and Trebizond (now Trabzon); a line from Ulukışla on the Baghdad Railway to Sivas via Kayseri; a railway from Sivas to Harput and thence to Mosul with branches to Bitlis and Van; and a railway from Harput to Yumurtalık, a port on the Gulf of Iskenderun.
- Arsamosata still existed under the Artukid principality of Harput, but it was no longer a major city.
- Later, Palu formed part of the Artukid emirate of Harput; along with Kiğı, it was one of the main towns in the eastern part of the emirate.
- Many of these Turks came from Harput, Akçadağ, Antep and Macedonia and embarked for the United States from Beirut, Mersin, İzmir, Trabzon and Salonica.
- Afterward, Harput expanded its borders further in the south-east Anatolia region by capturing Siverek, Urfa, Harran and Raqqa.
- One of its most famous graduates, for example, was Ashur Yousif, a member of the Syriac Orthodox Church and a future instructor at Euphrates College in Harput.
- But neither did he enjoy the Ilkhan Abaqa's full confidence and the successes of Baybars had brought insipient anti-Mongol feelings among Seljuk notables, led by the Seljuk governors of Diyarbekir, Harput and Niğde, to the fore.
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