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KUTAIAH, KUTAYA

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 955 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KUTAIAH, KUTAYA , Or KIUTAHIA, the See also:chief See also:town of a sanjak in the vilayet of See also:Brusa (Khudavendikiar), See also:Asia See also:Minor, is situated on the Pursaksu, an affluent of the Sakaria (anc. Sangarius). The town lies at an important point of the See also:great road across Asia Minor from See also:Constantinople to See also:Aleppo, and is connected by a See also:branch See also:line with the See also:main line from Eski-shehr to Afium Kara-See also:Hissar, of the Anatolian railway. It has a busy See also:trade; pop. estimated at 22,000. Kutaiah has been identified with the See also:ancient Cotiaeum. See V. Cuinet, Turquie d'Asie, vol. iv. (See also:Paris, 1894).

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