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ID: 7002384
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002384
Record Type:
administrative
Ayaş (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 01 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.0167
decimal degrees
Long: 032 21 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 32.3500
decimal degrees
Note:
Was a sheltered harbor located on sandy shore of a shallow bay with an island in the center, now a peninsula; was site of ancient city that flourished in Roman times; was virtually deserted after Arab invasions.
Names:
Ayaş
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Selçikler
(
H
,
V
)
Sebaste
(
H
,
V
)
............
renamed in honor of August Caesar
Elaeussa
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Elaioussa
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Turkey
(nation) (
P
)
............
Angora
(province) (
P
)
................
Ayaş
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1st or 2nd cen. BC
village (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
city (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ayaş..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
...........
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Elaeussa..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
.................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
8653
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
294-295
Elaioussa..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopedia of World History (1980)
XII, 276
Sebaste..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
294
Selçikler..........
[
BHA
]
....................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia of World History (1980)
XII, 276
..................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
8653
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
294; 294-295
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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