Hit (anc. Is), a town of Turkey in Asia, on the Euphrates, 85 miles WNW. of Bagdad, has pits of bitumen, which have been worked from time immemorial, and naphtha-springs. Pop. about 2500.
Hit
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 723
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