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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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ots suggestion that they may possibly be a mixed race, partlydescended from the old Galatian conquerors. Even the Galatian Mohammedans,the mildest and most genial in Anatolia, would seem to have a dash of Gaulishblood in their veins, although at least eighteen centuries have passed since thecomplete fusion of the Keltic element in the Anatolian population. The statementof Saint Jerome is often repeated that in his time—that is, in the fourth century ofthe new era—the language current in Ancyra was the same as that of the people ofTreves on the Rhine. But for three centuries Greek had already supersededGalatian names, a sufficient proof that the Gaulish idiom had disappeared at thisepoch. In Galatia no Keltic inscriptions or monuments have ever been found inany way recalling the remote western home of the invaders. During the lastcentury the trade of Angora was chiefly in the hands of English, French, andDutch merchants ; but it is now monopolised by Greek immigrants from Kaisarieh
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n s a CO o Oi o <1 I(A o HPi CQO nw HEEACLEA—ANCYEA—SCUTAEI—BEUSSA. 305 who buy up for the English market the delicate fleece- of the Angora goats. Theyalso forward other local produce, especially wax, and the yeUow Chekeri berry(rhamnus alaternus), which yields a beautiful green dye. On the Upper Pursak (Pursadu), western branch of the Sakaria, the chiefplace is Kiutayeh, which rivals Angora in size, while enjoying greater commercialadvantages through its proximity to Brussa and Constantinople, and to its positionon the main route across Anatolia. Lying 3,100 feet above the sea, on a fertileplain, apparently the bed of an old lake, Kiutayeh is commanded by one of the best-preserved Byzantine fortresses in Asia Minor. No other remains have survived ofthe ancient Cotyaum, a name preserved under the modern Turkish form of Kiutayeh. Esld Shehr, or the Old Town, the old Dorylceum, is frequently mentioned inthe early Turkish records, and here a great victory was gained by the Crus

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