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96 THE MOHAMMEDAN RACES
The Osmanli of the cities are very different in
character from those of the villages, and those
of one district vary widely from those of another.
The Osmanli are almost the only example of real
racial mixture under the Turkish regime. There
can be no doubt that a considerable part of the
Christian population of central Anatolia turned
Moslem during the first two or three centuries of
Turkish rule, and the Mohammedanised Christian
population has melted into, or perhaps has ab-
sorbed into itself, the settled and more adaptable
part of the Turkish population. In Phrygia and
Pisidia, the Christian population disappeared al-
most entirely; and the whole country became
Mohammedan except a few small Christian
settlements, e.g., Zille beside Konia, Permenda
beside Ak Sheher, Khonas near Denizli, quarters
in the cities Sparta and Olu-Borlu, with one or two
others. We see that the purely Christian city
Laodiceia (pronounced Ladfkya), in A.D. 1210, had
become the mainly Mohammedan city Ladik in
1332, and in 1340 had even lost its old name and
taken the purely Turkish name Thingozlou (Denizli,
" full of waters") ; and yet some of the old
Anatolian institutions, such as "the Brotherhood,"
(see chapter xi.) remained in a Mohammedanised
form. Further we find no reason to think that any
violent change had occurred in the interval, for the
The Osmanli of the cities are very different in
character from those of the villages, and those
of one district vary widely from those of another.
The Osmanli are almost the only example of real
racial mixture under the Turkish regime. There
can be no doubt that a considerable part of the
Christian population of central Anatolia turned
Moslem during the first two or three centuries of
Turkish rule, and the Mohammedanised Christian
population has melted into, or perhaps has ab-
sorbed into itself, the settled and more adaptable
part of the Turkish population. In Phrygia and
Pisidia, the Christian population disappeared al-
most entirely; and the whole country became
Mohammedan except a few small Christian
settlements, e.g., Zille beside Konia, Permenda
beside Ak Sheher, Khonas near Denizli, quarters
in the cities Sparta and Olu-Borlu, with one or two
others. We see that the purely Christian city
Laodiceia (pronounced Ladfkya), in A.D. 1210, had
become the mainly Mohammedan city Ladik in
1332, and in 1340 had even lost its old name and
taken the purely Turkish name Thingozlou (Denizli,
" full of waters") ; and yet some of the old
Anatolian institutions, such as "the Brotherhood,"
(see chapter xi.) remained in a Mohammedanised
form. Further we find no reason to think that any
violent change had occurred in the interval, for the