IZBARTA, or

See also:

• SPARTA (Gr. Eirapril or AaKe5atycav)

SPARTA [anc.

See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris]  , the chief town of the Hamid-abad sanjak of the Konia vilayet, in Asia Minor, well situated on the edge of a fertile plain at the foot of Aghlasun Dagh . It was once the capital of the Emirate of Hamid . Itsuffered severely from the earthquake of the 16th-17th of January 188g . It is a prosperous place with an enlightened Greek element in its population (hence the numerous families called " Spartali " in Levantine towns); and it is, in fact, the chief inland colony of Hellenism in Anatolia . Pop . 20,000 (Moslems 13,000, Christians 7000) . The new Aidin railway extends from Dineir to Izbarta via Buldur .