Central Turkey College

There was also a Central Turkey College in Maraş.

Central Turkey College (sometimes called Aintab College) was a Christian high school founded between 1874 and 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 Syriac Orthodox Church and a future instructor at Euphrates College in Harput.

As a result of the massacres of the Armenians during the 1915 Armenian genocide, the college was transferred to the Syrian city of Aleppo, ^[1] through the efforts of its director John E. Merrill (1898–1937), ^[2] where it became known as Aleppo College or the Aleppo American College. ^[3]

See also

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

References

1. "Synod-SL:Aleppo College". Archived from the original on 2014-01-13. Retrieved 2012-09-08.
2. "Aleppo College: Syrian History". www.syrianhistory.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2026-01-20.
3. Miller, George (1967). "Aleppo College: Failure or Fulfilment?". The Muslim World. 57: 42–45. doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.1967.tb01239.x.

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