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Show WORLD'S OLDEST CITY Iconlum or Konla, as It is better known today, In Asia Minor, 300 miles cast of Smyrna, held by some aielm-eloglsts aielm-eloglsts to bo tho oldest city In tho world, derived its namo from tho el-kones, el-kones, or Images of mud, which, ac cording to the hnclcnt legend of the placo were made by PromothcuH and Athena at the command ot Jupiter, who, after tho great flood, caused the winds to blow upon tho elkoncs, and they becamo living men nnd women. wom-en. Thus, hccordlng to this tradition, tradi-tion, Iconlum was tho first place settled set-tled utter tho flood. |