Ramsay, William Mitchell: The cities and bishoprics of Phrygia: being an essay of the local history of Phrygia from the earliest time to the Turkish conquest (Band 1,1): The Lycos Valley and South-Western Phrygia (Oxford, 1895)

13. MODERN AND ANCIENT ANATOLIA.

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Mikhayil near Prymnessos \ Mikhalitch (on the Sangarios), and
several others which preserve the name of Michael the Archangel,
the most widely worshipped saint in Asia Minor2.

In the districts treated in this volume, the following modem names
are, some certainly, some possibly, ancient survivals (besides those
just mentioned), Medele (Motella or Metellopolis), Exava or Eksava,
Geveze3, Billara (Brioula), Dandalo (Tantalos), Evgara, Khoma
(Khoma), Aidan (Attanassos), Sikmen, Meier, Gebren (Kivlana),
Einesh, &c, see p. 301.

Seljuk prince Ilias, and not to a local
Christian cult.

1 An inscription to Michael of Prym-
nessos is published Atli. Mitth. 1882
p. 144.

2 Mualitch (Miletopolis Hist. Geogr.
p. 159) is probably Mikhailitch.

3 Compare in Bitkynia Geveze (Da-

kibyza) Hist. Geogr. p. 184. Some of
the names in this list may, however,
be recognized as genuine Turkish by
those who have better knowledge of
Turkish than I (who have simply picked
up by ear from the peasantry their rude
speech).

Note.—A map of the Lycos valley from its source to the junction with the
Maeander (showing the sites of Laodiceia, Colossai, and Hierapolis), on the scale
of nearly 11 miles per inch, is given in my Church in the Roman Empire p. 472.