The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-03-03
Modern Lessons In
GEOGRAPHY
ANGORA

touch of gold; overrun two centurie
before Christ by Remembering cous
ms OF the Irishman of today; a grea
and wealthy community under Rom,
and Byzantium and in spite of it.
~checkered history and it's past glory
known to recent generations in thu
West only because of a long haired
goat.
"Such is Angora in central Asia
Minor" says a bulletin issued by the
National Geographic Society, where
Mustapha Kemal Pasha has set ur
the Angora Government which he
claims to be the real government of
Turkey, and from where, supposedly
surrounded by Bolshevist agents. he
is issuing defiant messages to the AL
lies.
The remote kinsmen of the Irish
who figure in the history of Angora,"
continues the bulletin, were 10000
Celts from central Europe, who, UNI
able to push into Greece, decided to
try their luck across the Hellespont.
After marrying the country for half
a century they were forced to settle
around Angora, then known as An
ezra. Their country became known
as Galatia. There st. Paul is suppos-
ed to have founded a Christian
church to the congregation of which
he addressed his 'Epistle to the Gala
tlans. In the 4th century the Celtic
language was still to be heard in
Galatia, according to st. Gerome.
A Touch of Celtic Spirit in Asia
1.-The Celtic invaders were always
in the minority and were finally alb
sorbed, as the Norman conquerors of
England were absorbed by the Sax
ons. Many observers profess to see
the effects of Celtic blood in the
people of Angora today, and describe
them as lighter in complexion than
the people of others parts of the
Near East, and the most genial of
the Mohammedans of Asia Minor
"Ancyra dwindled to a village UNI
der Celtic rule, but following the an
nexation of Galatia to the Roman
Empire in 25 B. C. and during the
hundred years in which it was main
as the Roman fronties prov
nee, the city took on great impor-
,ance. One of the most famous of
ruins of Asia Minor is that of a
beautiful marble temple in Angora
dedicated to Rome and Augustus
During the Byzantine period An
,yra became even more important,
is position between Constantinople
md Mesopotamia and Persia making
t the metropolis of interior Asia Mi
Tor. The rising power Of the Turks
vas indicated by the fall of Ancyra !
nto their hands more than a humid
ed years before the fall of Constan- l
But Ancyra was captured |
hortly afterward by the Christian :.
crusaders during one of their far :
nest sorties inland and was held by '
for Is years until 1860, when :
again fell into Turkish hands. :
A City of Mud and Marble !
Though marble reminders of its =
lcient glory are scattered about in =
Ie Angora of today, it is predomin- G.
lilly a dingy city of mud brick =
'uses and narrow streets. A mosque
built against one of the marble =
alls of the noble old Augustan tenn q
e. The walls and gates of the city r.
e constructed of fragments of de- ;,
ollshed Greek and Roman build
gs, colonnades and other structures.
The city is 220 miles southeast lii
Constantinople. 1t has a popula- b,
N of about 10000, approximately =
bird of them Armenians who speak
rklsh. 1t is perched on a rocky ~
to the north of which are /.
tile valleys and to the south of
stretch plains merging finally |:
0 a great desert. On these south III
plains are pastured large herds lll
sheep, and goats with long silky :
r which have made the name, An e
"a, familiar to Western ears.
'ge quantities of wool and mohair :
exported.
Cats, and to a less extent dogs :
other animals in the neighbor- e
d of Angora have unusually long Fl
y hair. 1t is believed that the e
late and perhaps the soil of the e
ion are responsible for this pc :.
ar development" ~