American Fork Citizen | 1916-04-01 | Page 3 | Question of Tongue

Question of TonQUC, Somo amount of confimlon lsiauscd by the pronuuchillou of the namo of tho town Kuprulu, or Veles, In Mace donln. Tlio dlffoionco In nomenchi turo Is nttrlhulnblo to thn cotilllct of tongues. Kuprulu, Koprulu or Ku prill, Is tho Turkish equivalent or thu Ilulgarlan Vnlcsa and tho Greek Ve llssa, nil of which refer to tho same I town In Iho vilayet (au It wna umlnr Turkish rule) of Sulonlkl. The nnclunl Greek hlntorlan Polyblus apeaks ul the town of Hylniors, and It is believed be-lieved that tho Hulgarlau and modern Greek names aio corruptions of this Tho Turkish form, with slight medio-- medio-- cation, ls thg cognomen of a family of statesmen who. nourished from the sixteenth to (ho eighteenth contUrKij London Chronicle.