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348 GARSAURITIS AND KONIYEH. [CHAP. XV.
on the rising ground adjoining the eastern side of the town
mark the site of the royal city of Csesarea, 1 and bear the
appearance of having been the result of an earthquake like
that which produced such calamities in 1835.
SeT of Alf * The ca P ital of tlle adjoining district, Garsauritis, 8 is Ak-
Serai (Archilai's) ; the town is situated in an open, well-cul
tivated valley, 3 and contains 810 houses, with numerous Sara
cenic remains. 4 The Musellim of this place has charge of
the salt-mines of Tuz Ko'i, and also of the rest of the district,
for the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Koniyeh. 5
Abl*u8° f . In tlle counti y which stretches to the S.W., between the
districts of Ak-Serai' and Kai'sarlyeh (ancient Tyanitis), are
the towns of Eski Andaval (Addavilis), Nigdeh, and B6r; in
the neighbourhood of which, at Kiz-hisar, are the presumed
ruins of Tyana, 6 its only town. 7 Near the latter is the foun
tain of Abamseus; 8 and further S.W., at the foot of the
mountains, the modern town of Eregli, with 800 houses.
Kamml, &c. Tlle countr y wes tward from. Ak-Serai, towards the dry and
naked region of the Axylus, has scarcely been noticed since
the brief journey of Tavernier, in 1664, although it is on the
borders of the central district of Koniyeh. The latter con
tains, on the north-eastern side, the towns of Ylaghun, near
which there are two lakes, Jordan Ladik, the ancient Laodicea
Combusta, Karaman, once Laranda, towards the S.W., con
taining about 1000 houses, 9 and Devil, 10 the Derbe of St. Paul,
which was on the borders of Isauria; 11 and, finally, in the
centre of the great and partly marshy plain, stands Koniyeh,
the capital of the Sultans of Rum, where fragments of inscrip-
1 Strabo, lib. XII., p. 539.
2 Next to Morimene, and on the borders of Pbrygia —Pliny, lib. VI., c. xxvii
^ Mr. W. J. Hamilton's Journey, Vol. VIII. Part II., p. 146.
4 Mr. Ainsworth's Journey, Vol. X. Part III., p. 299.
J J bid -' P 294 - . 6 Strabo, lib. XII., p. 537.
Mr. W. J. Hamilton's Journey, Vol. VOL Part II., p. 153, of the Royal
(geographical Journal. a j bi( j
9 Leake's Asia Minor, p. 98.
10 Mr. W J. Hamilton's Journey, Vol. VIII. Part II., p. 154, of the Royal
Geographical Journal.
11 Strabo, lib. XII., p. 569.