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CHAPTER VIII
VALLEY OF THE KAZANES AND INDOS
§ 1. Natural Features and Ethnology p. 250. § 2. Themisonion p. 252.
§ 3. Eriza p. 253. § 4. Phylakaion p. 255. § 5. History of the Kazanes Valley
p. 257. § 6. The State of Themisonion p. 260. § 7. Thampsioupolis p. 261.
§ 8. Agathe Kome p. 261. § 9. The Saviour-God p. 262. § 10. Cibyra and
the Asian Cibyratis p. 265. § 11. The Asian Cibyratis and Kabalis p. 266.
§ 12. The Turkish Conquest p. 268.
Appendices: I. Inscriptions of the Kazanes Valley and the Cibyratis p. 269.
II. Bishops of Themisonion, Cibyra, and Lagbe p. 274.
§ 1. Natural Features and Ethnology. From M. Kadmos
a ridge stretches south for a long way, till at last it sinks down to
the pass that leads by Bey-Kern to Tefeni and the Lysis valley.
Beyond that pass the hills rise again to the great Bahat-Dagh, which
stretches N.E. to S.W., forming part of one of the chains of M. Taurus.
Parallel to this ridge another stretches south from M. Salbakos ; and
between the two lies a long valley, the northern part of which is now
called Kara-Eyuk-Ova. The view from the pass, 4,200 feet high, by
wdiicb the road crosses to Kara-Eyuk-Ova from Laodiceia1, shows
a narrow valley, bounded east and west by mountains that spring
abruptly from the plain, and ending at the far south in a low ridge
(hiding the lake of Gol-Hissar, Alimne), behind which (and beyond
the lake) rise the mountains of the main Taurus chain. The general
impression from the northern pass is that we are gazing down the
valley of a river that flows to the south (towards the unseen lake).
But in reality the valley slopes from both ends down to its lowest
point about the middle. The lake of Gol-Hissar lies in a separate
basin, barely divided from the long valley by a little rising-ground:
it rests against M. Taurus, and has no drainage, except perhaps (as
1 The road ascends the glen of the § 9 ; and it was evidently on the high
river Kadmos, turns left over a high pass, pass that the great struggle occurred,
and then descends south to the Kara- From this pass one looks up to the main
Eyuk-Ova. This was the road by which peak of M. Kadmos, towering high over-
Louis of France marched in 1148 Ch. I head.
VALLEY OF THE KAZANES AND INDOS
§ 1. Natural Features and Ethnology p. 250. § 2. Themisonion p. 252.
§ 3. Eriza p. 253. § 4. Phylakaion p. 255. § 5. History of the Kazanes Valley
p. 257. § 6. The State of Themisonion p. 260. § 7. Thampsioupolis p. 261.
§ 8. Agathe Kome p. 261. § 9. The Saviour-God p. 262. § 10. Cibyra and
the Asian Cibyratis p. 265. § 11. The Asian Cibyratis and Kabalis p. 266.
§ 12. The Turkish Conquest p. 268.
Appendices: I. Inscriptions of the Kazanes Valley and the Cibyratis p. 269.
II. Bishops of Themisonion, Cibyra, and Lagbe p. 274.
§ 1. Natural Features and Ethnology. From M. Kadmos
a ridge stretches south for a long way, till at last it sinks down to
the pass that leads by Bey-Kern to Tefeni and the Lysis valley.
Beyond that pass the hills rise again to the great Bahat-Dagh, which
stretches N.E. to S.W., forming part of one of the chains of M. Taurus.
Parallel to this ridge another stretches south from M. Salbakos ; and
between the two lies a long valley, the northern part of which is now
called Kara-Eyuk-Ova. The view from the pass, 4,200 feet high, by
wdiicb the road crosses to Kara-Eyuk-Ova from Laodiceia1, shows
a narrow valley, bounded east and west by mountains that spring
abruptly from the plain, and ending at the far south in a low ridge
(hiding the lake of Gol-Hissar, Alimne), behind which (and beyond
the lake) rise the mountains of the main Taurus chain. The general
impression from the northern pass is that we are gazing down the
valley of a river that flows to the south (towards the unseen lake).
But in reality the valley slopes from both ends down to its lowest
point about the middle. The lake of Gol-Hissar lies in a separate
basin, barely divided from the long valley by a little rising-ground:
it rests against M. Taurus, and has no drainage, except perhaps (as
1 The road ascends the glen of the § 9 ; and it was evidently on the high
river Kadmos, turns left over a high pass, pass that the great struggle occurred,
and then descends south to the Kara- From this pass one looks up to the main
Eyuk-Ova. This was the road by which peak of M. Kadmos, towering high over-
Louis of France marched in 1148 Ch. I head.