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See also:ALARIC II
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507), eighth See also: See also:Philadelphia), a See also:town of See also:Asia See also:Minor, in the See also:Aidin vilayet, situated in the valley of the Kuzu Chai (Cogamus), at the See also:foot of the Boz Dagh (Mt . Tmolus) 83 m . E. of See also:Smyrna (105 by railway) . Pop . 22,000 (Moslems, 17,00o; Christians, 5000) . Philadelphia was founded by Attalus II. of See also:Pergamum about 150 B.C., became one of the " Seven Churches " of Asia, and was called " Little See also:Athens " on See also:account of its festivals and temples . It was subject to frequent See also:earth-quakes . Philadelphia was an See also:independent neutral See also:city, under the See also:influence of the Latin Knights of See also:Rhodes, when taken in 1390 by See also:Sultan Bayezid I. and an See also:auxiliary See also:Christian force under the See also:emperor See also:Manuel II. after a prolonged resistance, when all the other cities of Asia Minor had surrendered . Twelve years later it was captured by Timur, who built a See also:wall with the corpses of his prisoners . A fragment of the ghastly structure is in the library of See also:Lincoln See also:cathedral . The town is connected by railway with Afium-Kara-See also:Hissar and Smyrna . It is dirty and See also:ill-built; but, See also:standing on elevated ground and commanding the extensive and fertile See also:plain of the Hermus, presents at a distance an imposing See also:appearance . It is the seat of an See also:archbishop and has several mosques and Christian churches . There are small See also:industries and a See also:fair See also:trade . From one of the See also:mineral springs comes a heavily charged See also:water known in See also:commerce as " Eau de See also:Vals," and in See also:great See also:request in Smyrna . See W . M . See also:Ramsay, Letters to the Seven Churches (1904) . |
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