Selçuk (İzmir İli, Türkiye) (Geographic Name)

Not the same as: Ephesus (Extinct city)

Foss, C. Ephesus after antiquity, 1979: p. 121 (During Byzant. period the center of Ephesus gradually shifted from the port city to the fortified hill (Turkish Ayasuluk for Ayos Theologos [no publs. in LC data base]) & was increasingly called Theologus [no publs. in LC data base]) p. 179, etc. (during the 19th cent. completely deserted; revived in 20th cent., now called Selçuk)

Gaz. of Turkey, 1984 (Selçuk; ppl.; 37°57ʹN, 27°22ʹE; TU35 [i.e. in prov. of Izmir]; other ppl. of same name also listed; variants: Ayasoluk [no publs. in LC data base], Ephesus)

Web. new geo. dic., 1984 (Selçuk, formerly Aya Soluk [no publs. in LC data base]; village near site of anc. Ephesus)

Enc. Brit. macro. (under Ephesus, modern village of Seljuq near the ruins of Ephesus)

GEOnet, August 24, 2018 (Selçuk, İzmir İli, Turkey, seat of a second-order administrative division, 37°56ʹ55ʺN, 027°22ʹ22ʺE (37.948564, 27.372747); variants: Ayasoluk, Ephesus; other populated places of the same name elsewhere in Turkey)

Ücra yerde ve deniz kenarında, ihtiyatlu mahalde bir şehir Ayasuluğ (Selçuk), 2010

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