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IntersectionLieuAntiquité–XIXe siècle

Region: Turquie (Égée)

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Ancient Thyatira, one of the seven cities of the Johannine Apocalypse, Akhisar retains traces of Jewish presence since Antiquity, attested by inscriptions and the Pauline letters. A Sephardic community settled there after 1492 and remained active until the nineteenth century.

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The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Akhisar (Thyatire) give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Sources & resources

  • Encyclopaedia Judaica2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
  • Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic WorldBrill

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