آلاشهر

Ottoman Turkish

Alaşehir district

Etymology

Compound of آلا (ala, “spotted, multicolored”) +‎ شهر (şehir, “city”).

Proper noun

آلاشهر • (Alaşehir)

Alasehir (a town and district in Manisa province, Turkey)

Synonyms

فيالدلفيا (Filadelfiya) (historical)

Descendants

Turkish: Alaşehir

English: Alasehir

Further reading

Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Alaşehir”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)

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