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Tralles

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Tralles (trăl`ēz), ancient Carian city, W Asia Minor. It is the modern Aydin Aydin , city (1990 pop. 106,603), capital of Aydin prov., W Turkey, on the Büyük Menderes River. It is the trade center for a farm region where olives, figs, cotton, and tobacco are grown.
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Beyond the New Testament, Ignatius (Letter to Tralles 6, Letter to Ephesus 6) seems the first Father to use the term pejoratively.
The marvellous invention of the jack arch (a combination of brick vaulting stiffened by wrought iron or steel beams and often supported on cast iron columns) allowed new perceptions of mass carried apparently effortlessly -- potentially as powerful a spatial device as the dome floated over Hagia Sophia by Isodorus of Miletus and Anthemios of Tralles.
En route to Rome, Ignatius composed Paulinian Letters to the Churches at Ephesus, Magnesia, Philadelphia, Rome, Smyrna, and Tralles, also a personal one to Polycarp.
 
 
 
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