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A WAYSIDE FOUNTAIN IN KONIA 



Konia was once the terminus of the Anatolian railways, whose influence has done much to 

 revive the town. Situated at an altitude of more than 3,000 feet, this present version of 

 ancient Iconium is surrounded by fine orchards and is well watered by hill streams. Konia is 

 about 90 per cent Turkish, but in the days immediately preceding the war had begun to take on 

 some European characteristics. 



It is necessary to go to Berlin to see the 

 remarkable remains of the great altar at 

 Pergamos — a structure of extraordinary 

 size and complexity and splendor — and it 

 is necessary to go to the British Museum 

 to see the remains of the Mausoleum at 

 Halicarnassus, the monument and tomb 

 of the Carian prince Mausolus. Those 

 cities and colonies of the "Sons of Javan" 

 were all, from the greatest to the smallest, 

 splendidly adorned. 



The best preserved Greek theater was 



built in the Roman time,, at the Pamphy- 

 lian city of Aspendos. 



The sepulchral monuments of Lycia 

 and Phrygia, the rock churches of Cappa- 

 docia, are marvelously interesting and 

 beautiful in different ways. Only in Asia 

 Minor can one find the ruins of a city 

 called still by the Moslems the "Thousand 

 and One Churches.'' 



This short list gives no adequate con- 

 ception of the extraordinary wealth of 

 artistic adornment in those Asiatic-Greek 



