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Gabar
Derogatory name applied to the Zoroastrian minority of Iran. The word may derive from the Arabic kafir ("infidel"). After the Muslim conquest of Persia in the 7th cent. BC, the Zoroastrians became an outcast minority, saddled with many social and economic disabilities. Since the 19th cent. they have received support from their coreligionists, the Parsis of India. Persecuted after the Islamic fundamentalist revolution of 1978-79, they currently number a few thousand.


Galati
City (pop., 1994: 327,000), SE Romania. Located at the confluence of the Danube and Siret rivers, it was occupied by the Turks from the early 16th cent. until 1829; its growth was encouraged by its status as a free port (1837-83). During World War II, retreating German troops devastated the town and reduced the population, substantially Jewish, to less than half. Extensively rebuilt, it is one of Romania's chief ports and the site of the country's largest shipyard.


Galatia
Ancient district, central Asia Minor. It was occupied early in the 3rd cent. BC by Celtic tribes who were then overpowered by the Seleucid king Antiochus I in 275 BC. At that point the Celts, called Galatae (Galatians) by 3rd-cent.-BC writers, settled in the territory to which they gave their name. Passing successively under the rule of Pergamum and Pontus, Galatia became a Roman protectorate in 85 BC. By the 2nd cent. AD, the region had become absorbed into the Hellenistic civilization.


Rabat
City (metro. area pop., with Sal\u00e9 , 1994: 1,386,000), capital of Morocco. It is situated on the Atlantic coast at the mouth of the Bou Regreg River, opposite Sal\u00e9 . One of Morocco's four imperial cities, it was founded in the 12th cent. by Almohad ruler Abd al-Mumin as a ribat (camp) quartering troops for his holy war against Spain. After 1609 the unified community of Rabat-Sal\u00e9 became the home of large numbers of Andalusian Moors who had been driven from Spain and, later, of the Sallee Corsairs, the most dreaded of Barbary Coast pirates. Under the French, it was made the administrative capital of a French protectorate after 1912. Now a center of the textile industry, it is noted for its carpets, blankets, and leather handicrafts.

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