CHORUM  , the

chief town of a sanjak of the Angora vilayet in Asia . Minor, altitude 2300 ft., situated on the edge of a wide plain, almost equidistant from Amasia and Yuzgat . Pop. about 12,500, including a few Christians . Its importance is largely due to its situation on the great trade-route from Kaisarfeh (Caesarea) by Yuzgat and Marzivan to Samsun on the Black Sea . It corresponds to the ancient Euchaita, which lay 15 M . E . Euchaiti was attacked by the Huns A.D . 508, and became a bishopric at an early period and a centre of religious enthusiasm, as containing the tomb of the revered St Theodore, who slew a dragon in the vicinity and became one of the great warrior saints of the Greek Church . Something of the old enthusiasm seems to have passed to the inhabitants of Chbrum, whom most travellers have found bigoted and fanatical Mahommedans (see J . G . C:Anderson, Sludia Pontica, pp . 6 ff.) .