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Angora

a town in the interior of Asiatic Turkey, 215 miles E. S. E. of Constantinople, with considerable mains of Byzantine architecture, and relics of earlier times, both Greek and Ancyranum, raised in Roman, such as the remnants of the Monumentum honor of the Emperor Augustus. All the hair forms an important export as well especially the goats, sheep, and cats. This hair forms an important export as well as the fabric called camlet, here manugoats' skins, dye stuffs, gums, honey and goats' skins, dye stuffs, gums, honey and wax, etc. Pop. about 35,000.

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