SPONGE fishing is the most important industry of the inhabitants of the islands lying off the main coast of Asia Minor. Thousands of seamen every year are busy cleaning, drying, and bleaching ...

Once a very important road in Asia Minor ran north along the Aegean coast from Ephesus into Smyrna and then to Pergamum. Another road that began at Pergamum ran southeast to Thyatira, farther ...

THE mountainous and volcanic district, or, to speak more correctly, belt, which skirts the northern coast of Asia Minor, beginning from Amastri, one hundred and fifty miles east of the Bosphorus ...