BEYBAZAR  , the

chief town of a kaza of the Angora vilayet in Asiatic Turkey, situated on an affluent of the Sakaria (anc . Sangarius), about 52 M . W. of Angora . It corresponds to theanc . Lagania, renamed Anastasiopolis under the emperor Anastasius (491-518), a bishopric by the 5th. century . Its well-built wooden houses cover the slopes of three hills at the mouth of a gorge filled with fruit gardens and vineyards . The chief products are rice, cotton and fruits . From Beybazar come the fine pears sold in Constantinople as " Angora pears "; its musk-melons are equally esteemed; its grapes are used only for a sweetmeat called jevizli-sujuk (" nutty fruit sausage ") . There are few remains of antiquity apart from numerous rock-cut chambers lining the banks of the stream . Pop. about 4000 to 5000 .