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Aintab

British  
/ aɪnˈtɑːb /

noun

  1. the former name (until 1921) of Gaziantep

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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We could see Urfa some little way ahead of us, and wondered whether the missionaries would have heard of our arrival through their friends at Aintab.

From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb

His father is the well-known missionary of the American Board at Aintab, Turkey.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

Hence a Southern Armenian Mission was organized in November, 1856, having the Taurus for its boundary on the north, and embracing the stations of Aintab, Marash, Antioch, Aleppo, and Oorfa.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson

Theological classes were taught at Aintab and Marash, as early as 1860.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson

From Aintab it is two short days' journey to the Euphrates.

From By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb

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