Toponym The original Greek name of the sancak’s ancient administrative was Tralleis (Grk.: Τράλλεις; latinized: Tralles). The name of the province, the sancak, the kaza and the sancak’s administrative seat of Aydın derives from the principality of the Aydınoğulları, who ruled the region before the Ottomans (in Greek: Αϊδίνιο – Aidinio). Aydın is a Turkish male and female given name meaning ‘bright’, ‘clear’ or ‘educated’. The first name also occurs very often as a family name. Administration Aydın became part of Anatolia Province of the Ottoman Empire until 1827, when it became the seat of its own eyalet under its own name, constituted among [...]
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Sancak of Denizli
Administration In the late 19th century, the sancak comprised the six kazas of Denizli, Tavas (also Davas; Grk: Davazon), Çal, Buldan, Sarayköy and Garbikaraağaç (also Kara-Ağaç; today: Acıpayam) Hierapolis: Frontinus Gate (source: https://virtual-genocide-memorial.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Hierapolis_Turkey_Frontinus-Gate.jpg) Toponym In Greek, the ancient city was called Attouda (Αττούδα). The earliest spelling of the town is Ṭoñuzlu. The proper word ṭoñuzlu refers to ṭoñuz (pig). Thus, it was initially a place full of pigs. In Ibn Battuta‘s Seyahatname (14th c.), the city is called Dūn Ġuzluh, which Ibn Battuta himself translates as ‘city of pigs’. This designation possibly goes back to the presence of Christian pig breeders in the city. Already [...]
Kaza Bergama / Πέργαμον – Pergamon / Πέργαμος – Pergamos
Pedestal of the altar of Zeus at Pergamon (photograph: Klaus-Peter Simon, 2000; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon#/media/Datei:PergamonAltar2000.jpg) Pergamon was located on the northern edge of a plain formed by the river Kaïkos (today’s Bakırçay). The built-up area rises at the feet, on the slopes and on the plateau of the Acropolis, the core of which consists of a mesa-shaped massif of andesite rock about 335 meters high. The castle hill slopes very steeply to the north, east and west, while the southern side forms a flatter transition to the plain via three natural steps. To the west, the Selinos (today Bergamaçay) flows through the city [...]
Kaza of Manisa / Μαγνησία – Magnisía / Magnesia /
Manisa and Mount Sipylos (1838) Population Saint Grigorios (Gregory) of Kydonies (Ἅγιος Γρηγόρος Κυδωνιών), Ethno-Hieromartyr (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_(Orologas)#/media/File:Gregory_Orologas_of_Kydonies.jpg) In 1911, Ottoman Magnesia had an overall population of 35,000.[1] The Greek population of the kaza of Manisa belonged to the Diocese of Ephesos (with eighty-five communities and 164,467 Greek Orthodox inhabitants)[2]. Notable Greek-Orthodox Christians Saint Gregory (Orologas) of Kydonies the Ethno-Hieromartyr, also Gregory of Cydoniae (Γρηγόριος Ωρολογάς – Gregorios Orologas), b. 1864, Manisa–d. 3 October 1922, Ayvalık: Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop in the early 20th century in northwest Anatolia History Luwians, Hittites, Phrygians and Lydians Weeping Rock, is a natural formation on Mount Sipylus in Manisa which associated with Niobe (source: [...]
Sancak of Saruhan / Sarukhan / Magnesia / Manisa
Manisa and Mount Sipylos (1838) Administration Between 1595–1836, the sancak of Saruhan (Magnesia) remained attached to the Eyalet of Anadolu, as in the time of the Ottoman crown princes. Between 1836–1867 the city and its depending region was made part of the short-lived Eyalet of Aydın, which became a vilayet with the administrative reforms of 1867. During this phase, Saruhan (Manisa) even had an eyalet of its own under its name as the “Eyalet of Saruhan” between the even shorter period 1845–1847. The seat of the province to which Saruhan sancak depended was the city of Aydın (1827–1841 and 1843–1846) at first, [...]