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BEYBAZAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 838 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEYBAZAR , the See also:

chief See also:town of a kaza of the See also:Angora vilayet in See also:Asiatic See also:Turkey, situated on an affluent of the Sakaria (anc. Sangarius), about 52 M. W. of Angora. It corresponds to theanc. Lagania, renamed Anastasiopolis under the See also:emperor See also:Anastasius (491-518), a bishopric by the 5th. See also:century. Its well-built wooden houses See also:cover the slopes of three hills at the mouth of a See also:gorge filled with See also:fruit gardens and vineyards. The chief products are See also:rice, See also:cotton and fruits. From Beybazar come the See also:fine See also:pears sold in See also:Constantinople as " Angora pears "; its See also:musk-melons are equally esteemed; its grapes are used only for a sweetmeat called jevizli-sujuk (" nutty fruit sausage "). There are few remains of antiquity apart from numerous See also:rock-cut See also:chambers lining the See also:banks of the stream. Pop. about 4000 to 5000.

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