Ayvalık - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Ayvalık - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Karateke, Hakan

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060806
Doc. NO	:	ALei1203
Main Entry	:	Karateke, Hakan
Title & Author	:	Ayvalık - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Karateke, Hakan
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(523 words)
Abstract	:	Ayvalık is a small town located on a peninsula in the gulf of Edremit, on the northern Aegean coast of Turkey. Although settlements in antiquity were located on the nearby islands to the west, extant historical sources offer scant evidence of Ayvalık's existence prior to the eighteenth century. Piri Reis (Pīrī Re'īs) does not mention it in his Kitab-ı Bahriye (Kitāb-i Baḥriyye , c. 1521). The Turkish name Ayvalık (“quince orchard”) derives from the Greek name of the town, Kidonia (“quince”). Until the end of the nineteenth
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1203.pdf