DENIZLI (anc.

See also:

• LAODICEA
• LAODICEA, SYNOD OF

Laodicea (q.v.)  ad Lycum), chief town of a sanjak of the Aidin vilayet of Asia Minor, altitude 1167 ft . Pop. about 17,000 . It is beautifully situated at the foot of Baba Dagh (Mt . Salbacus), on a tributary of the Churuk Su (Lycus), and is connected by a branch line with the station of Gonjeli on the Smyrna-Dineir railway . It took the place of Laodicea when that town was deserted during the wars between the Byzantines and Seljuk Turks, probably between 1158 and 1174 . It had become a fine Moslem city in the 14th century, and was then called Ladik, being famous for the woven and embroidered products of its Greek inhabitants .