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AIDIN . (I) A vilayet in the S.W. of See also:

Asia See also:Minor including the See also:ancient See also:Lydia, See also:Ionia, See also:Caria and western See also:Lycia. It derives its name from the Seljuk emir who took See also:Tralles, and is the richest and most productive See also:province of See also:Asiatic See also:Turkey. The seat of See also:government is See also:Smyrna. (2) The See also:principal See also:town of the valley of the Menderes or Maeander, about 70 M. E.S.E. of Smyrna. It is called also Guzel See also:Hissar from the beauty of its situation on. the See also:lower slopes of See also:Mons Messogis and along the course of the ancient Eudon. It is the See also:capital of a sanjak. It was taken by the See also:Seljuks, Aidin and Mentesh, See also:late in the 13th See also:century, and about 1390, when ruled by Isa See also:Bey, a descendant of the first-named, acknowledged See also:Ottoman See also:suzerainty. In the Seljuk See also:period it was a secondary See also:city under the provincial capital, See also:Tireh (q.v.). In the 17th century it came under the See also:power of the Karasmans of See also:Manisa and remained so till about 1820. Aidin is on the Smyrna-See also:Dineir railway, has large tanneries and sweetmeat manufactories, and exports See also:figs, See also:cotton and raisins.

It was greatly damaged by an See also:

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 See also:British consular See also:agent. As there are considerable See also:numbers of Greeks, Armenians and See also:Jews among the inhabitants, there are a See also:Greek See also:cathedral, several churches and synagogues in addition to the See also:fine See also:Turkish mosques. (D. G.

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