ANGORA, ANGORA, ANKARIA, ANGURA, ENGURI, the modern names of the ancient celebrated city of An cyra, the former capital of Galatia. It is situated in Natolia, a province of Asiatic Turkey, and still exhibits numerous traces of its ancient splendor. The castle of Angora, which resembles a town, and is inhabited by Turks and Christians, has three enclosures, and its walls are composed of large blocks of white marble and a stone like porphyry. The walls of the city are low and ill built, with very mean battlements; they consist chiefly of old stones, kept together by mud, through which architraves, capitals, and broken columns, the fragments of their former glory, occasionally shine. The modern town, which is built nearly on the site of Ancyra, is governed by a pacha or cacti, and is one of the best in Natolia. The situation of Angora is eleva ted, its climate dry and salubrious, and the Soil consists chiefly of a fine red marl. Angora is celebrated for a particular breed of 'goats, from whose fine hair the An gora stuffs are manufactured. These goats exist only in a space about 30 miles round Angora, and always de generate when carried to another place. This differ ence in its fineness is very perceptible in the goats on the other side of a small river _between Angora and Smyrna. Their hair, which is about 8 or 9 inches long, is formed naturally into tresses, and is as fine as silk. Some of it is of such a superior kind, that it is a capital crime to export it, as it is preserved to make camblets for the seraglio of the grand signior. The common
kind is employed in the fabrication of the cambleth in the Levant, and in the best manufactories of the same. stuffs in Europe. No less than five or six hundred camel-loads of this precious article were exported an nually by the English, French, and Dutch, who have resident agents in the town. It is transported in cara vans to Smyrna, which is the emporium of Angora. Several houses in Constantinople have established fac tors at Angora, and carry on a very lucrative and ex tensive trade in this article. Angora is celebrated for its orchards; and the excellent pears, which are sold at Constantinople, come from this place. Poppies are cultivated in abundance for the manufacture of opium; and the annual sale of wax, amounts to 2000 piastres. The population of Angora is about 101,000. Of these 90,000 are Turks, 1000 Janizarics, and about 10,000 Christians; of whom 500 are Greeks, and the rest Ar menians, who chiefly carryon the commerce of Angora. An account of the famous battle of Angora, fought in 1402, between Tamerlane and Bajazet, will be found in Gibbon's Hist. chap. lxv. vol. xii. p. 22. E. Long. 33° 18'. N. Lat. 40° 5'. See' Tournefort's Voyage en Le vant, vol. ii. Rcmarques snr plusiezirs Bi.anches de Com merce et Navigation ; Peuchet's Dict. vol. ii. p. 67— 532. (0)