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Title: The universal geography : the earth and its inhabitants
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London : J.S. Virtue & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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d a famous temple of the goddessAnahit, regarded by the old Persian monarchs as the most sacred shrine of thenational divinities.. The numerous pilgrims at one time attracted to this spot havebeen succeeded by traders from all quarters.. ZiUeh has thus become one of thechief Anatolian market-towns. On the route leading north to Amasia lies thebattlefield where Csesar overthrew Pharnaces, king of Pontus, an event renderedmemorable by his laconic description: I came, I saw, and conquered. Amasia, birthplace of Strabo, fills a narrow basin traversed by the Iris, justabove its confluence with the Tersakan-su. East and west rise the lofty crags thashelter the city froni the solar rays for several hours in the day. The lessprecipitous east heights are partly laid out in terraces, planted with vineyards andstudded with houses. Those on the opposite side, at whose base are still visible 296 some remnants of tlie SOUTH-WESTEEN ASIA. ( ,ce of the Pontine kings, present an almost vertical flank,
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topped by the citadel described by Strabo. The present fortress is almost entirelyof Byzantine and Turkish erection; but there still remain two fine Hellenic towers TOKAT—AMASIA—C^SAEEA—SINOPE. 297 besides galleries cut in the rock and leading to a secret spring in the interior. Onthe face of the bluff are shown five royal tombs, standing out sharply against thegrey ground of the rock. This old metropolis of Pontus has preserved no other remains except a fewfragments of sculptured marbles used in building the piers of one of its bridges.But it boasts of a handsome mosque, fine fountains, quaint houses, large irrigatingmills, and streets that may almost be called clean, thanks to the white vultures thatact as industrious scavengers. There are also some local industries, such as silk-carding and cloth-weaving, chiefly carried on by the Greeks and Armenians, who Fig. 114.—Amasia.Scale X : 100,000.

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