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Tralles (trăl`ēz), ancient Carian city, W Asia Minor. It is the modern Aydin Aydin (īdŭn`), city (1990 pop. 106,603), capital of Aydin prov., W Turkey, on the Büyük Menderes River. ..... Click the link for more information. , Turkey. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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