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Show SACRED CITY OF ! TURKS MENACED Brusa Has Seen Hundreds of Evacuations and Seicjes in Its History BRUSA, Turke, Aug. 28. When ttfc Greeks took over Brusa .and droe the Turkish nationalists eastward from Sea of Marmora this snored city of, the Osmanlis only re-enacted ih scenes of a hundred other sieges and evacuations which have marked its life-: in recorded and mythical history. It ; lies at the foot of BDOWclad Mount Olympus, which has attracted adven turers from the davs rf the Argc-' nauts. This mountain looms high above all others on the Anatolian shorf of the Marmora and the site of Brusa. well up the base of I he peak and overlooking, the grc.it, fertile val-le val-le of the Nilufer, has nlways tempt cd conquerors. CF ANCIENT ORIGIN Hannibal laid om t!te jjresenl cii,. according to some historians. Other credit Prusiu, the proiector of Hanni bal, with the creation of Brusa. which' was ori(tlnull called I'nisla It was the capital of the Bllhnlan kingdom until 75 yean before Christ, when Nicomeddefl HI left his kingdom to the Romans During the Byxanttne pe-; tiod. Bruca was alternately in the hands cf Christians and Moslems The Arabs took it in a famous &iegc in 950. H was soon recaptured b the Christians Chris-tians In the eleventh centnrv the Turks c.-.pturrd i. and held it until the Christian Crusader? captured Nicaen in 1097 It parsed into the hands of the Os-manlis Os-manlis in 1326 and became the residence resi-dence of the sultans and the grea cul tural center of ihe Moslems, to which, posts, philosophers, dervishes nn' h-dy men of all sorts flocked from IVrdla. Kboraasan and Bokhara The city v,ts sacked by Tlmur in Hie fifteenh cen turj. Several fires have ruined portions por-tions of it and in 1855 It suffered a terrlbh earthquake which killed more than 1000 persons and damaged dmnnv of Its historic walls iind moseques. PRCUOUS Tu 1 0rtKb Bui the Green Munque, or Yeshil Jaml uiniii Mohammed built in 1420. and which architects regard as the greatest art creation of mo Osmsnlis still stands in all its beauty. And the tombs of many sultans, Including that of Mohammed I. make Brusa more precious to the Turks than an Othei pan of their empire, not even except mg Constantinople. Conscqurmiy there Is the greatest apprehension among Moslems lest Brusa wiih Its hundreds of mosques lis citadel dat lng back to Roman limes and its sacred sa-cred tombs may remain indefinitely In Christian hands Geumlek, the little port on the Gulf Of Geumlek 2ft miles from Brua ve;. g used bj ail the original Christian crusaders cru-saders when they made their a 1 tempts to rescue the holy places of the Le ant. Communication with Angora Is lost since the Greeks entered Communiques from Musiapha Kemal no longer encourage the Turks trha had hoped the Greeks would not be abl 1 1 1 take- ilrusa Faith Is weakening weaken-ing In the nationalist forces and Mos lems curse the Germans and blame them for all their troubles. But prac-tlcallv prac-tlcallv all the younger Turks have moved eastward with the Kemal ists It is chiefly women and very old men who remain and their protestations against the nationalists and denum In Hon of Ihe Germans must be taken with reserves. |