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[edit] 1911 brittanica

ISKELIB, the chief town of a Caza (governed by a kaimakam) in the vilayet of Angora in Asia Minor, altitude 2460 ft., near the left bank of the Kızılırmak. (anc. Halys), loo m. in an air-line N.E. of Angora and 60 S.E. of Kastamuni (to which vilayet it belonged till 1894). Pop. Io,600 (Cuinet, La Turquie d'Asie, 1894). It lies several miles off the road, now abandoned by wheeled traffic, between Changra and Amasia in a picturesque cul de sac amongst wooded hills, at the foot of a limestone rock crowned by the ruins of an ancient fortress now filled with houses (photograph in Anderson, Studia Pontica, p. 4). Its ancient name is uncertain. Near the town (on S.) are saline springs, whence salt is extracted.