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Gillikin Country

also Country of the Gillikins · Gilliken · Gilliken Country

The purple country, where Tip was raised.

First named in The Marvelous Land of Oz, ch. 1

In the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip.

Where this is

  • placed In Oz worked out

    read out of the chapters cited on this page, not stated in any one sentence of them

Names in the books

  • called Gillikin Country 22 chapters

    The Emerald City of Oz23

    The Lost Princess of Oz56

    The Tin Woodman of Oz13510111224

    The Magic of Oz36791322

    Glinda of Oz1215

    The Royal Book of Oz4

    The Gnome King of Oz215

  • called Gilliken 17 chapters

    Kabumpo in Oz141112

    Grampa in Oz3

    The Lost King of Oz12511121621

    The Giant Horse of Oz7891018

  • called Gilliken Country 11 chapters

    Kabumpo in Oz1411

    Grampa in Oz3

    The Lost King of Oz1251112

    The Giant Horse of Oz1018

  • called Country of the Gillikins 7 chapters

    The Marvelous Land of Oz137

    The Road to Oz13

    The Patchwork Girl of Oz214

    The Tin Woodman of Oz4

What the books say it is

  • region north 1 chapter
    • said Margolotte, when they were all seated together on the broad window-seat, "that my husband foolishly gave away all the Powder of Life he first made to old Mombi the Witch, who used to live in the Country of the Gillikins, to the north of here.
      The Patchwork Girl of Oz, ch. 2
  • colour purple 1 chapter
    • It was built by a mighty and wonderful Wizard named Oz, and everything there is of a green color—just as everything in this Country of the Gillikins is of a purple color.
      The Marvelous Land of Oz, ch. 3
  • appearance mountains and valleys and forests and streams 1 chapter
    • The least known of all is the Gillikin Country, which harbors many strange bands of people among its mountains and valleys and forests and streams, and Ozma was now bound for the most distant part of the Gillikin Country.
      Glinda of Oz, ch. 2
  • appearance wild 1 chapter
    • I know that wild Gillikin country pretty well. Its forests harbor many ferocious beasts.
      Glinda of Oz, ch. 15

Appearances

The Marvelous Land of Oz (3 of 24 chapters)
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (2 of 20 chapters)
The Road to Oz (1 of 24 chapters)
The Emerald City of Oz (3 of 30 chapters)
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (2 of 28 chapters)
The Lost Princess of Oz (2 of 26 chapters)
The Tin Woodman of Oz (8 of 24 chapters)
The Magic of Oz (6 of 23 chapters)
Glinda of Oz (3 of 24 chapters)
The Royal Book of Oz (1 of 24 chapters)
Kabumpo in Oz (4 of 22 chapters)
Grampa in Oz (1 of 22 chapters)
The Lost King of Oz (6 of 21 chapters)
The Gnome King of Oz (1 of 20 chapters)
The Giant Horse of Oz (3 of 20 chapters)
The Yellow Knight of Oz (1 of 20 chapters)

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