Ala-Shehr

Cassell's Eneyclopedia of General Information · 1910 · p. 73

a city in the pashalic of Anatolia, Turkey, 77 miles E. of Smyrna. It is on site of Philadelphia, one of the Seven Churches Asia, and until 1390 it offered a stubborn resist to the Turks. A Greek archbishop is estabthere.