KAISARIYEH

[s. 380] : A city in Asiatic Turkey, situated in the province of Angora and about 200 miles S. by W. of the City of Angora. It lies in a fertile plain at an altitude of 3,585 feet, near the foot of Mt. Argeas {Erjish). It was in ancient times capital of Cappadocia, and is now the seat of an Armenian bishop. The climate is dry, pleasant and healthful, with a tendency to KacliU’wa 363 extremes of heat and cold, however, owing to Population, 72,000, the altitude of the plain. 14,500 of whom 45,000 are Mohammedans, Greeks, 9,000 Armenians, and about 2,000 EvanThe Christian part of the population gelicals. furnish many enterprising busine men who find their way into foremost places in Constantinople, Smyrna, Adana, etc., and have even made their mark in mercantile circles in London, Manchester and New York. Evangelistic work was begun in Cesarea in 1823 by Mr. B. Barker, Agent of the BFBS. The Scriptures which he distributed here were as seed falling into good ground. Later the persecution of Protestant Armenians in Constantinople had for one of its incidents the exile to Cesarea in 1839 of a preacher, Hohannes der Sahagian, and of other Evangelicals in 1845. These all preached the Gospel wherever they were, with the result that a number of the people mi ion of the city, in 1849, sent to the aries at Aintab an earnest request for a preacher. ABCFM In 1854 the ABCFM sent Rev. W. A. Farnsworth and Rev. J. N. Ball to occupy the city as a permanent station. It now (1903) has 3 mi ionaries and their wives, 6 women mi ionaries, 74 native workers, men and women; 35 outstations, 25 places of worship, 31 day schools, 2 boarding schools, 1 hospital, 1 dispensary, and 1,088 The place evangelical Christian communicants. is commonly called Cesarea by English-speaking people, the name Kaisariyeh being the Turkish corruption of this. 381