ADALIA (med. Antaliyah; the crusaders' Satalia)

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ADALIA (med. Antaliyah; the crusaders' Satalia) , the ancient Attalia (q.v.), the largest seaport on the south coast of Asia

Minor

, though in point of trade it is now second to Mersina. The unsuitability of the harbour for modern steamers, the bad anchorage outside and the extension of railways- from Smyrna have greatly lessened its former importance as an emporium for west central Anatolia. It is not connected by a chaussee with any point outside its immediate province, but it has considerable importance as the administrative

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of a rich and isolated sanjak. Adalia played a considerable part in the medieval history of the Levant. Kilij Arslan had a palace there. The army of Louis VII. sailed thence for Syria in 1148, and the

fleet

FLEET

of Richard of England rallied there before the conquest of Cyprus. Conquered by the Seljuks of Konia, and made the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of the province of Tekke, it passed after their fall through many hands, including those of the Venetians and Genoese, before its final occupation by the Ottoman Turks under Murad II. (1432). In the 18th century, in common with most of Anatolia, its actual lord was a Dere Bey. The family of Tekke Oglu, domiciled near Perga, though reduced to submission in 1812 by Mahmud II., continued to be a rival power to the Ottoman

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

till within the present generation, surviving by many years the fall of the other

great

GREAT

Beys of Anatolia. The records of the Levant (Turkey) Company, which maintained an important agency here till 1825, contain curious information as to the local Dere Beys. The present population of Adalia, which includes many Christians and Jews, still living, as in the middle ages, in separate quarters, the former round the walled mina or port, is about 25,000. The port is served by

coasting

COASTING

steamers of the local companies only. Adalia is an extremely picturesque, but ill-built and backward place. The

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

thing to see is the city

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

, outside which runs a good and clean

promenade

PROMENADE

. The government offices and the houses of the better class are all outside the walls.
See C. Lanckoronski, Villes de la Pamphylie et de la Pisidie, i. (189o). (D. G. H.)

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