Bitlis

Meanings

proper noun

A province in southeastern Turkey.
A district of Bitlis Province, Turkey.
A municipality, the capital of Bitlis district and Bitlis Province, Turkey.
They are alſo Lords of Bitlis, and ſome other Cities and holds in thoſe parts.
1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of Armenia Maior, and Georgia: and the neighbouring Nations.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 293

Chinese Mandarin 比特利斯

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