Region: Turquie (Anatolie occidentale)
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Uşak, a textile center in western Anatolia, is mentioned in Ottoman tax registers (defterler) as the seat of a Jewish community from the 16th to the 19th century. Jews there were engaged in the wool and carpet trade.
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This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Uşak give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Sources & resources
- Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World — Brill
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