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>Can anyone help me answer a reference inquiry --
>I've been asked to locate a place, called (in a French source)
>"Djambazde" and identified as a site "en Anatolie" with an
>early Christian or Byzantine basilica.
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>Can anyone tell me (or point me towards a source that could
>tell me) where this place is and what it is called in Turkish?
>Neither the spelling nor the form of the name seem Turkish
>to me, but place names can be odd corruptions of older forms.
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>Many thanks.
>
>Andras Riedlmayer
>Fine Arts Library
>Harvard University
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Andras:
Could it be that this site is Armenian? While the spelling doesn't look
Turkish, I do not know
enough Turkish or Armenian to be sure, however, there are Armenian names
like Djardjaras (Jarjaris), Ejmiadzin (Ejmiacin), Ijewan, Bjni and
spellings like Dzamdzor. I also know that "J" can be substituted for "Dj"
and the "dj" combination is usually found in Indonesia and Tunesia. Sorry
I couldn't be of
more help. That spelling also doesn't show up in "Place-Name Changes Since
1900" world
gazateer compiled by Adrian Room (Scarecrow Press, 1979) which I have found
very helpful in finding defunct spellings of Turkish and Armenian names.
Jeanne
Jeanne M. Keefe
Graphics Curator
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Architecture Library
Troy, NY 12180
Tel: (518) 276-2727
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