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AIDIN

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 435 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AIDIN . (I) A vilayet in the S.W. of Asia
Minor
  including the ancient
Lydia
 ,
Ionia
 ,
Caria
  and western
Lycia
 . It derives its name from the Seljuk emir who took
Tralles
 , and is the richest and most productive province of Asiatic Turkey. The seat of government is Smyrna. (2) The principal town of the valley of the Menderes or Maeander, about 70 M. E.S.E. of Smyrna. It is called also Guzel Hissar from the beauty of its situation on. the lower slopes of Mons Messogis and along the course of the ancient Eudon. It is the
capital
  of a sanjak. It was taken by the Seljuks, Aidin and Mentesh,
late
  in the 13th century, and about 1390, when ruled by Isa Bey, a descendant of the first-named, acknowledged Ottoman suzerainty. In the Seljuk period it was a secondary city under the provincial
capital
 , Tireh (q.v.). In the 17th century it came under the power of the Karasmans of Manisa and remained so till about 1820. Aidin is on the Smyrna-Dineir railway, has large tanneries and sweetmeat manufactories, and exports figs,
cotton
  and raisins. It was greatly damaged by an earthquake in 1899. On a neighbouring height are to be seen the ruins of the ancient
Tralles
  (q.v.), the site to which the name Guzel Hissar was particularly given by the Seljuks. Aidin is the seat of a British consular agent. As there are considerable numbers of Greeks, Armenians and Jews among the inhabitants, there are a Greek cathedral, several churches and synagogues in addition to the fine Turkish mosques. (D. G. H.)


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