CHORUM, the chief town of the vilayet of the same name in Asia Minor, altitude 2,300 ft., on the edge of a plain, almost equidistant from Amasia and Yozgat. Pop. (1927) 60,752. The ancient Euchaita, 15 m. E., was attacked by the Huns A.D. 508, and became a bishopric at an early period. It contained the tomb of the revered St. Theodore, who slew a dragon in the vicinity and became one of the great warrior saints of the Greek Church. (See J. G. C. Anderson, Studia Pontica, pp. 6 ff. )