ELMALI ("

See also:

• APPLE (a common Teut. word, A.S. aepl, aeppel, O.H.G. aphul, aphal, apfal, mod. Ger. Apfel)

apple-

See also:

• TOWN

town ")  , a small town of Asia Minor in the vilayet of Konia, the present administrative centre of the ancient Lycia, but not itself corresponding to any known ancient city . It lies about 25 M. inland, at the head of a long upland valley (5000 ft.) inhabited by direct descendants of the ancient Lycians, who have preserved a distinctive facial type, noticeable at once in the town population . There are about fifty Greek families, the rest of the population (4000) being Moslem . The district is agricultural and has no manufactures of importance .