Ayasoluk

English

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.

Proper noun

Ayasoluk

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

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