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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Districts of Manisa, Lydia, People from Manisa Province, Populated places in Manisa Province, Niobe, Sardis, Asia, Thyatira, Eunapius, Turgutlu, Salihli, Ala ehir, Akhisar, Kenan Evren, Laodicea on the Lycus, Hilmi Ozkok, Confession inscriptions of Lydia and Phrygia, Karun Treasure, Arzawa, Xanthus, Straton of Sardis, Mount Sipylus, Golmarmara, Kula, Manisa, Sar gol, List of municipalities in Manisa Province, K rka ac, Demirci, Soma, Manisa, Kopruba, Manisa, Gordes, Selendi, Ahmetli, Saruhanl, Lydians, Tripolis, Stratonicea, Bageis, Piyama-Kurunta, Lake Marmara, Calda mine, Bularchus, Aryenis, Aigai, Pythius, Paleopolis, Lydia, Atys, Digda, Ludim, Cadys, Antiochia, Lydia, Hyllus, Pactyes, Af ar Dam, Helenopolis in Lydia. Excerpt: Manisa is a large city in Turkey's Aegean Region and the administrative seat of Manisa Province. Modern Manisa is a booming center of industry and services, advantaged by its closeness to the international port city and the regional metropolitan center of zmir and by its fertile hinterland rich in quantity and variety of agricultural production. In fact, zmir's proximity also adds a particular dimension to all aspects of life's pace in Manisa in the form of a dense traffic of daily commuters between the two cities, separated as they are by a half-hour drive served by a fine six-lane highway nevertheless requiring attention at all times due to its curves and the rapid ascent (sea-level to more than 500 meters at Sabuncubeli Pass) across Mount Sipylus's mythic scenery. The historic part of Manisa spreads out from a forested valley in the immediate slopes of Sipylus mountainside, along Cayba Stream which flows next to Niobe's "Weeping Rock" "A layan Kaya"), an ancient bridge called the "Red Bridge" ("K rm z Kopru") as well as to several tombs-shrines in the Turkish style dating back ...
