ARABGIR or ARABKIR, a town of Turkey in Asia in the Malatia vilayet, situated near the confluence of the eastern and western Euphrates, but some miles from the right bank of the combined streams. Pop. (1927), 21,778. It is connected with Sivas by a c/iaussee, prolonged to the Euphrates. The inhabitants are employed in the manufacture of silk and cotton goods, or in the production of fruit. The present town was built at a comparatively recent date; but about 2m. north-east is the old town, now called Eski-Shehr, given (c. 1021) to Senekherim of Armenia by the emperor Basil II.