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ALARIC II

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ALARIC II . (d. 507), eighth See also:king of the Goths in See also:Spain, succeeded his See also:father Euric or Evaric in 485. His dominions not only included the whole of Spain except its See also:north-western corner, but also See also:Aquitaine and the greater See also:part of See also:Provence. In See also:religion Alaric was an Arian, but he greatly mitigated the persecuting policy of his father Euric towards the Catholics and authorized them to hold in 506 the See also:council of See also:Agde. He displayed similar See also:wisdom and liberality in See also:political affairs by appointing a See also:commission to prepare an abstract of the See also:Roman See also:laws and imperial decrees, which should See also:form the authoritative See also:code for his Roman subjects. This is generally known as the Breviarium Alaricianum, or. See also:Breviary of Alaric (q.v.). Alaric was of a peaceful disposition, and endeavoured strictly to maintain the treaty which his father had concluded with the See also:Franks, whose king See also:Clovis, however, desiring to obtain the See also:Gothic See also:province in See also:Gaul, found a pretext for See also:war in the Arianism of Alaric. The intervention of See also:Theodoric, king of the See also:Ostrogoths and father-in-See also:law of Alaric, proved unavailing. The two armies met in 507 at the Campus Vogladensis, near See also:Poitiers, where the Goths were defeated, and their king, who took to See also:flight, was overtaken and slain, it is said, by Clovis himself. See also:ALA-SHEHR (anc.

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Philadelphia), a See also:town of See also:Asia See also:Minor, in the See also:Aidin vilayet, situated in the valley of the Kuzu Chai (Cogamus), at the See also:foot of the Boz Dagh (Mt. Tmolus) 83 m. E. of See also:Smyrna (105 by railway). Pop. 22,000 (Moslems, 17,00o; Christians, 5000). Philadelphia was founded by Attalus II. of See also:Pergamum about 150 B.C., became one of the " Seven Churches " of Asia, and was called " Little See also:Athens " on See also:account of its festivals and temples. It was subject to frequent See also:earth-quakes. Philadelphia was an See also:independent neutral See also:city, under the See also:influence of the Latin Knights of See also:Rhodes, when taken in 1390 by See also:Sultan Bayezid I. and an See also:auxiliary See also:Christian force under the See also:emperor See also:Manuel II. after a prolonged resistance, when all the other cities of Asia Minor had surrendered. Twelve years later it was captured by Timur, who built a See also:wall with the corpses of his prisoners. A fragment of the ghastly structure is in the library of See also:Lincoln See also:cathedral. The town is connected by railway with Afium-Kara-See also:Hissar and Smyrna. It is dirty and See also:ill-built; but, See also:standing on elevated ground and commanding the extensive and fertile See also:plain of the Hermus, presents at a distance an imposing See also:appearance.

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archbishop and has several mosques and Christian churches. There are small See also:industries and a See also:fair See also:trade. From one of the See also:mineral springs comes a heavily charged See also:water known in See also:commerce as " Eau de See also:Vals," and in See also:great See also:request in Smyrna. See W. M. See also:Ramsay, Letters to the Seven Churches (1904).

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