Ak-Hissar, a town of Asia Minor, 52 miles NE. of Smyrna, in the valley of the Hyllus. It is the ancient Thyatira, where was one of the Seven Churches of Asia. The streets are paved with sculptured stones, and other relics of antiquity abound. Cotton goods and dyestuffs are exported. Pop. 12,000, of whom two-thirds are Turks, and the remainder mostly Greeks.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 116
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