AKRON  , a

city and the county-seat of Summit county, Ohio, U.S.A., on the Little Cuyahoga river, about 35 M . S. by E. of Cleveland . Pop . (1890) 27,601; (1900) 42,728, of whom 7127 were foreign-born (3227 being German, 1104 English, and 641 Irish) ; (191o) 69,067 . It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio, the Erie, the Northern Ohio, and the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus railways, by inter-urban electric lines and by the Ohio Canal . The city is situated in a region abounding in lakes, springs and hills; it is about woo ft. above sea-level, whence its name (from Gr . &Kpov, height); and attracts many summer visitors . It is the seat of Buchtel College (co-educational; non-sectarian), which was founded by the Ohio Universalist Convention in 187o, was opened in 1872, and was named in honour of its most liberal benefactor, John R . Buchtel (1822-1892), a successful business man who did much to promote the industrial development of Akron . Buchtel College provides three courses leading to the degrees of A.B., Ph.B. and S.B.; it has a school of music, a school of art and an academy; in 19o8 there were 267 students . Coal is mined in the neighbourhood . The river furnishes considerable water-power; and among the city's most important manufactures are rubber and elastic goods (value, 1905, $13,396,974; 83.9 % of the total of this industry in the state and 21.3 % of the total for the United States, Akron ranking first among the cities of the country in this industry), printing and publishing product (value, 1905, $2,834,639), foundry and machine-shop product (value, 1905, $2,367,764), and pottery, terra-cotta and fire-clay (value, 1905, $1,718,033; nearly twice the value of the output in 1900, Akron ranking fourth among the cities of the United States in this industry in 1go5) .

Other important manufactures are

food preparations (especially of oats) and flour and grist mill products . The value of the total manufactured products (under the " factory " system) in 1905 was $34,004,243, an increase in five years of 54.5% . Akron was settled about 1825, was incorporated as a village in 1836, was made the county-seat in 1842, and in 1865 was chartered as a city . See S . A . Lane, Fifty Years and over of Akron and Summit County (Akron, 1892) . AK-SHEHR (anc . Philomelion), a town in Asia Minor, in the Konia vilayet, situated at the edge of a fertile plain, on the north side of the Sultan Dagh . Philomelion was probably a Pergamenian foundation on the great Graeco-Roman highway from Ephesus to the east, and to its townsmen the Smyrniotes wrote the letter that describes the martyrdom of Polycarp . Cicero, on his way to Cilicia, dated some of his extant correspondence there; and the place played a considerable part in the frontier wars between the Byzantine emperors and the sultanate of Rum . It became an important Seljuk town, and late in the 14th century passed into Ottoman hands . There Bayezid Yilderim is said by Ali of Yezd to have died after his defeat at Angora .

The place still enjoys much repute among

Turks, as the burial-place of Nur-ed-din Khoja . The town has a station on the Anatolian railway, about 6o rn. from Afium-Kara-Hissar and 10o m. from Konia .