Central Turkey College

There was also a Central Turkey College in Maraş.

Central Turkey College (sometimes called Aintab College) was a Christian college founded in 1874 (or 1876?) by the American Mission Board in Aintab, Ottoman Empire (now Gaziantep, Turkey). It was on a site west of the city, and also had a branch for girls in town. It was burned down in 1891, but was rebuilt.

Its students were largely Armenian Protestants, but non-Armenians and non-Protestants also attended. One of its most famous graduates, for example, was Ashur Yousif, a member of the Syrian Orthodox Church and a future instructor at Euphrates College in Harput.

After the destruction of the Armenian community, the college's president, John E. Merrill (1898–1937), transferred it to Aleppo in 1924, where it became Aleppo College and functioned as a high school.

See also

• List of missionary schools in Turkey
• List of high schools in Turkey

References

• Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition, s.v. Aintab.

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