The Volcanoes of the Kula Basin in Lydia (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE VOLCANOES OF THE KULA BASIN IN LYDIA. General Description. The chief town of the district, and the one that the writer made his headquarters, is Kula,f the seat of a large carpet industry a place with 12,000 inhabitants, of whom 8500 are Turks, and the rest Greeks. It is situated in 38 33' N. Lat. and 28 42' E. Long., in the eastern part of the vilayet (province) of Aidin, or what was anciently called Lydia, some 125 kilometres E. by N. of Smyrna, in a straight line. It is reached by travelling by rail to Ala Shehir (ancient Philadelphia), a trip of 169 kil. (6 hours), where one spends the night. From Ala Shehir one drives over a good road across the Konurja Mountains, and reaches Kula in about 5 hours. As the only regular accommodation for travellers is a very dirty, noisy, and public khan, one must either bring letters to some of the inhabitants, or trust to someone's hospitality for a lodging. The writer was most kindly received and courteously treated by a Greek named Haji Moise, who several times acted as guide to various places of interest, and to whom the writer wishes to return his thanks. It may be remarked that a knowledge of modern Greek or As some Turkish topographical words will be used in the course of this and other papers, the following short vocabulary will be found of use: Sunndr = Spring. Chai = River. Dag = Mountain. OSl = Lake. Hissdr = Castle. Kale = Fortress. Koi = Village. Kopril = Bridge. Shehir = City. Band = Water, Brook. Tosh = Rock. Tepe = Hill. The plural is formed by adding the syllable lav 0i ler, according as the vowel of the word is strong or weak. The accent of Turkish words falls as a rule on the last syllable. f The name Kula (also written Koulah) is derived from the Turkish KuU = a tower. The Byzantine fortress of Opsikion...