Galatia

Sources from old books:

1638. The merchants mappe of commerce wherein by Lewes Roberts.

Of PAPHLAGONIA and GALATIA and the Cities thereof.

IN Paphlagonia I finde not any City notable for trade▪ nor other thing note worthy: and as for Galatia, it is observed that to the people of this Province did Saint Paul dedicate one of his Epistles; and here is also sea•…d the City of Ancira, now commonly Angora, famous for the •…finite store of grograms, moheires and chamblets▪ that are made •…ere and frabricated, and from hence transported to Constantino•…e, being 16 dayes journey distant; and to Aleppo having a like re•…otenes; and from thence againe exported into all the Countries of Europe.

In this place the Venetians have a factorie to provide them the •…aid commodities, and the English in imitation thereof about 1624. did first send thither two factors from Constantinople, to furnish themselves with these commodities at the first hand: but some of the yarne called hence grograme yarne, (and not camels haire as some •…ainely conceive) being lately brought into England, ingenious workemen were here found that invented therewith Tames, and many other stuffes, to the great decay and prejudice of the Grograme trade of this Countrey, and of such as lived thereupon in Angora; whereupon the inhabitants in Anno 1630. petitioned the Duana of Constantinople, that this yarne might not be exported out of the Kingdome untill it were put into worke, and made into stuffes, which was granted them; but the farmers of the grand signiors customes at Constantinople conniving thereat, and suffering the same to be exported, paying double custome, which is 6. per cent. and so it continued till 1634. at what time a second stricter prohibition with confiscation was proclaimed and neerely lookt into, so that what quantity is now found to come thence is by indirect meanes, and not otherwise, if possible thereby a gaine to give life to the grogram trade and the makers thereof in these parts.

There was of late yeeres an offer made by the Venetian Ambassadour resident at Constantinople to export 500. of the goates that beare this wool to Venetia, thereby in time to bring this commodity in request in their signorie; but the Turks perceiving their drift denyed the same, least his subjects and Countrey might futurely be deprived of the benefit of so excellent a commodity, had our ancestors foreseene the like discommodity that would have insued by the exportation of English sheepe into Spaine, it may be conceived it would never have beene in those dayes permitted.

The weights and measures of this place are the same as are found in Constantinople, the grograme pico having from this Towne its originall, and is the proper pico of this Countrey and City; whereby all grograms, moheires and chamblets are measured and sold throughout all Turkey, and is in grograms found in England to answere proportionally as 24 pico, being a piece of ordnary grograms to make 16. yards London: for their moneys and accounts they are found to be the same as in Constantinople, vide there.

1676. A most exact and accurate map of the whole world by Donald Lupton.

Galatia, or Chaunger,

E. Cappadocia. N. Paphlagonia, S. Lycaonia famous for fruits and stones, especially the Amethyst, that keeps men from being drunk as long as they wear it; where people used to cast letters with the deceased into the fire, to be read in another world. Here

1. Ancyra famous for an old Synod, A. 299 and good Chamlets on the bankes of Surgarius.
2. Olenus.
3. Agrinana.
4. Tavium.
5. Androsin.
6. Phaborena.
7. Thorma.
8. Talach Bachora.