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Kara-Hissar
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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Black Castle"). (1) AFIUn1 Karahissar. (2) Ichje, Or Ischa Kara-Hissar (anc. Docimium ), a small village about 14 m. N.E. of No. 1. Docimium was a Macedonian colony established on an older site. It was a self-governing municipality, striking its ,own coins, and stood on the Apamea-Synnada-Pessinus road, by which the celebrated marble called Synnadic, Docimian and Phrygian was conveyed to the coast. The quarries are 21 m. from the village, and the marble was carried thence direct to Synnada (Chifut Kassaba). Some of the marble has the rich purple veins in which poets saw the blood of Atys.
See W. M. Ramsay, Hist. Geog. of Asia Minor (London, 1890); Murray, Hbk. to Asia Minor (1893).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Kara-Hissar'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/k/kara-hissar.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Kara-Hissar'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/k/kara-hissar.html. 1910.
