CHAP. XV.]
which represents Polybotum.1 This portion of the country
represents Phrygia, Paroreius, as the preceding part of the
district does the south-western side of Phrygia-Major, with
a portion of Pisidia, and it is the most elevated portion of
Asia Minor, t The present inhabitants are of that mixed description
which prevails throughout the peninsula, amongst
whom the nomadic Kurds and Turkomans hold a prominent
place, but according to Herodotus, the Phrygians were barbarians,
and the most ancient of all people.2
: Hamid extends from Afiyum-Kara-hisar southward to the
district of Tekéh and the Taurus, having Aïdin and Menteshâ
on the west. It is separated from the latter Pâshâlik by the
chain of Baba Tâgh ; and it is watered on this, or the western
side, by the Kopli-su, the Bânâs Châï, and other affluents of
the river Mendereh. Near the eastern side of the district is
the extensive and beautiful lake of Egérdir,3 which now
unites with that of Hoïran to the north ; and farther west is
the lake of Ascania, in the midst of beautiful scenery.4
The government is intrusted to a Vaïvodeh, who resides in
Isbartah, a well-built town, interspersed with gardens and
watered by numerous streams.5 In addition to places of inferior
note, Hamid contains the towns of Yalobâch, Antioch,
Buldur, and Egérdir, with its castle, and it is picturesquely
situated at the southern extremity of the lake of that name.
This district represents nearly the whole of Pisidia, together
with the south-western extremity of Phrygia ; and it contains
numerous ancient sites, such as Ishekll (Eumenia), Dineïr (or
Celenæ, afterwards Apamea Cibotis), Olou Burlu (Apollonia),
Pambuk. Kal’eh (Hierapolis), Eski-hisar (Laodicea),6 and
Sagalessus.
Tekéh extends from the last-mentioned district to the sea-
1 Leake’s Asia Minor, pp. 37, 53.
a Lib. I., c. exlii. ; lib. V., c. lix.
8 Mr. W. J . Hamilton’s Journey in Asia Minor, Vol. VII. Part I., p. 58, of
the Royal Geographical Journal.
4 Fellowes’s Journal in Asia Minor, 1838, p. 160.
s Ibid., p. 163.
Mr. W. J. Hamilton’s Journey, #c., Vol. VII. Part I., p. 58 to 60.
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