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See also:NIGDEH (Arab. Nakidah) , the See also:chief See also:town of a sanjak of the same name in the See also:Konia vilayet of See also:Asia See also:Minor, situated on the Kaisarieh-Cilician See also:Gates road . It is remarkable for the beauty of its buildings, dating from almost all ages of the Seljuk See also:period . After the fall of the sultanate of See also:Rum (of which it had been one of the See also:principal cities), See also:Nigdeh became See also:independent, and, according to Ibu Batuta, ruinous, and did not pass into See also:Ottoman hands till the See also:time of Mahommed II . It represents no classical town, but, with Bor, has inherited the importance of Tyana, I1 674 whose site lies about lo m . S.W . A Hittite-inscribed See also:monument, brought perhaps from Tyana, has been found at Nigdeh . The See also:population (20,000) includes a large See also:Greek and a small Armenian community . The Orthodox See also:metropolitan of See also:Iconium resides here . |
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