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74 AN EXCURSION IN PHRYGIA
two centuries, in which step by step they rolled
back the tide of Mohammedanism, and extended
the Byzantine Empire further to the east than the
Roman Empire in its palmiest days. Akroenos is
the Turkish Afiom-Kara-Hissar. The great for-
tress, called also Nikopolis, the City of Victory,
inherited the people and the marbles of the old
Phrygian city, Prymnessos, three miles distant
south by east, through the centre of which our
journey lies to-morrow.
Afiom-Kara-Hissar is one of the rainiest places
that I know : perhaps the lofty mountains close on
the south catch the rain-clouds drifting south from
the Black Sea. But, whatever be the reason, it has
rained almost every time I have been at Kara-
Hissar; I should except November, 1881, when it
only snowed. The town was true to its character ;
and this afternoon had to be spent in a khan under
shelter. In another respect I had better luck. The
officials made no difficulties : generally I have had
to make two or three visits to the Konak at this
city, and go through a lot of trouble.
This was again a blank day.
X. Six hours through a country full of interest,
where I ought to have spent at least two long days,
brought us to Tchifut-Kassaba (Jews-Market), the
site of Synnada, which lies almost due south of
Kara-Hissar. The cold continued, but no rain fell.
two centuries, in which step by step they rolled
back the tide of Mohammedanism, and extended
the Byzantine Empire further to the east than the
Roman Empire in its palmiest days. Akroenos is
the Turkish Afiom-Kara-Hissar. The great for-
tress, called also Nikopolis, the City of Victory,
inherited the people and the marbles of the old
Phrygian city, Prymnessos, three miles distant
south by east, through the centre of which our
journey lies to-morrow.
Afiom-Kara-Hissar is one of the rainiest places
that I know : perhaps the lofty mountains close on
the south catch the rain-clouds drifting south from
the Black Sea. But, whatever be the reason, it has
rained almost every time I have been at Kara-
Hissar; I should except November, 1881, when it
only snowed. The town was true to its character ;
and this afternoon had to be spent in a khan under
shelter. In another respect I had better luck. The
officials made no difficulties : generally I have had
to make two or three visits to the Konak at this
city, and go through a lot of trouble.
This was again a blank day.
X. Six hours through a country full of interest,
where I ought to have spent at least two long days,
brought us to Tchifut-Kassaba (Jews-Market), the
site of Synnada, which lies almost due south of
Kara-Hissar. The cold continued, but no rain fell.