Ayasoluk

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English

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Map of ancient Ephesus and early modern Ayasoluk

Etymology

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Variant spelling of Turkish Ayasuluk and Ottoman Turkish اياصـولق (Ayasuluk), from Byzantine Greek Ἅγιος Θεολόγος (Hágios Theológos, the Holy Theologian), from its 6th-century basilica dedicated to St John the Theologian, supposed author of the Book of Revelation. Doublet of Agios Theologos.

Proper noun

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Ayasoluk

  1. (historical) Former name of Selcuk, a town in Turkey near the ruins of ancient Ephesus.

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