Aintab

British

/ aɪnˈtɑːb /

noun

the former name (until 1921) of Gaziantep

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Born in Aintab in the Ottoman Empire, Dekmejian saw the deportations, the hunger and murder wrecked upon Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish government in 1915.

From Los Angeles Times

She was among the last Christians to leave Aintab.

From BBC

Aintab; fragment of relief inscription.

From Project Gutenberg

Several Hittite objects sent from Birejik and Aintab to Europe probably came from Jerablus, others from Tell Bashar on the Sajur.

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X. We wish to go by Aintab and Diarbekr to Baghdad.

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