Bir, a town of from 1800 to 2000 houses, of Asiatic Turkey, on the east bank of the Euphrates, 80 miles N.E. of Aleppo.—The Arabic Bir, which signifies 'well,' is the Hebrew Beer.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 162
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