Balahissar

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 670

Balahissar, a village on the site of the ancient Pessinus, in the south-western part of the province of Angora, in Asia Minor. The ancient town was famous for its worship of Cybele, and among the fragments of marble columns, friezes, &c., rise the ruins of her gorgeous temple and remains of a theatre in partial preservation, a castle, and a circus.

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