AS SYRIA

[s. 75] : That portion of Asiatic Turkey extending from Diarbekir on the north to Mosul on the south, and comprising the northern part of the Me so pot am i a plain. The word is. now seldom used as a geographical term. ASSYRIAN CHRISTIANS used to Church.: members designate A term sometimes of the Nestor i an ASYUT, or SIUT: A city on the Nile, 228 miles by rail south of Cairo. Population,. It was formerly 30,000, mostly Mohammedans. a principal seat of the slave-trade, and an important mditary station. It is now noted for a great irrigation dam on the Nile, finished under English auspices in 1903, subsidiary to the great dam of A uan. Ruins and catacombs abound in the neighborhood. It is a mi ion station of the United Presbyterian Church of the U. S., established in 1865, with 14 mi ionaries of both sexes, a hospital and dispensary, a high school for girls and a college. ATAFU ISLAND Also called Duke of York’s Island, is one of the Tokelau group of islands, N.: of Samoa. 75