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See also:ADALIA (med. Antaliyah; the crusaders' Satalia)
, the See also:ancient See also:Attalia (q.v.), the largest seaport on the See also:south See also:coast of See also:Asia See also:Minor, though in point of See also:trade it is now second to See also:Mersina
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The unsuitability of the See also:harbour for See also:modern steamers, the See also:bad anchorage outside and the See also:extension of See also:railways- from See also:Smyrna have greatly lessened its former importance as an See also:emporium for See also:west central See also:Anatolia
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It is not connected by a chaussee with any point outside its immediate See also:province, but it has considerable importance as the administrative See also:capital of a See also:rich and isolated sanjak
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See also:Adalia played a considerable See also:part in the See also:medieval See also:history of the See also:Levant
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Kilij Arslan had a See also:palace there
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The See also:army of See also: The port is served by See also:coasting steamers of the local companies only . Adalia is an extremely picturesque, but See also:ill-built and backward See also:place . The See also:chief thing to see is the See also:city See also:wall, outside which runs a See also:good and clean See also:promenade . The See also:government offices and the houses of the better class are all outside the walls . See C . Lanckoronski, Villes de la Pamphylie et de la Pisidie, i . (189o) . (D . G . |
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