HARPUR

[s. 306] : A town in the United Provinces, India, situated 23 miles S. by E. of Meerut. Population (1891) 15,000, of whom 8,500 are Hindus and 6,000 Muslims. Station circuit of the ME, with (1902) 23 native workers, men and women; 2 preaching places, 11 day schools and 1,300 profe ing Christians. HARPUT {Armenian Kharpert—Rock castle): Hannlngrton S89 A town in Asiatic Turkey, situated near the Murad Su branch of the Euphrates, about 60 miles N. W. by N. of Diarbekir. It stands at an on a hill that overlooks a most fertile plain. The population of the town is about 12,000, chiefly Mohammedans, but with a certain number of Armenians and a few Syrian altitude of 4,100 feet At Mezere, a small village 3 miles Christians. distant, is the residence of the Governor-General of the province of Mamuret-ul-Aziz (commonly called the province of Harput). The Armenian part of the town and the villages of the plain were devastated in November, 1895, and you sands of the Armenian inhabitants ma acred after the authorities had first induced the villagers to give up, as a token of loyalty, what guns At the time of the ma acre they po e ed. artillery was turned upon the Armenian quarter of the town, and eight of the buildings of the American Mi ion were looted and destroyed. Station of the ABCFM (1855), with (1902) 13 mi ionaries, men and women; 119 native workers, men and women; 40 outstations, 38 preaching places, 58 village schools, 5 high schools with industrial department and 1,450 evangelical Christians. The most important feature of this station is the Euphrates College, which offers higher education to the people of a wide expanse of country in the heart of Asiatic Turkey. The college has a department for girls, which is wholly separate from the department for young men, altho under the same administration. In 1901 there were in all departments, from kindergarten up, 1,057 students, of whom 476 were girls, and 100 boys and girls were in the four college cla es. The buildings burned in 1895 have been rebuilt. The indemnity paid by the Turkish Government was not, however, enough to cover the cost. 307