English Explanatory Dictionary

Ayasoluk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Former name of Selçuk: a town in İzmir Province, Turkey, near the ruins of ancient Ephesus.

Word forms

Ayasoluk

Etymology

Variant spelling of Turkish Ayasuluk and Ottoman Turkish ایاصـولق (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.

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