[23] For more exact information, see H. Kiepert, _Die griechische Sprache im pontischen Küstengebirge, Zeitschr. d. Gesellsch. f. Erdkde. in Berlin_, 25 (1890), S. 317 ff. [24] Only the two largest rivers of western Asia Minor, the Mæander and the Sangarios have, in a characteristic manner, kept their old names in the form of Menderes and Sakkaria. [25] These texts, so interesting for the history of trade, are reproduced by D. Georgiades in _La Turquie actuelle_, Paris, 1892, pp. 197 ff., 218 ff., 224 ff. [26] The statistical data are based on Cuinet, _La Turquie d’Asie_ (Paris, 1890-95), II. and III., completed from Baedeker, _Constantinopel und Kleinasien_, 2 (1914). [27] In a similar way, in more recent times, the German excavations of Priene and Miletus have benefited the neighboring Greek settlements. Cf. H. Gelzer, _Geistliches und Weltliches_, S. 231. [28] Also called Kuru-Chesme, _i.e._, “dry fountain.” The place seems to have a Greek name, Ξεροκρένε as its prototype, though no place of this name is provable in Byzantine times. [29] Details about the history of this school are to be found in K. Krumbacher, _Populäre Aufsätze_ (Leipzig, 1909), S. 251 ff. [30] These statistics about the schools are derived from Cuinet, as above cited. [31] As to the decrease of the Turkish population of Asia Minor and its causes, see L. Heermann, _Rückerinnerungen aus dem Orient_ (Aschaffenburg, 1886), S. 128 Anm.; R. Fitzner, _Anatolien_, S. 20 f.; on the increase of the Greeks: K. Humann, _Verhandlgn. d. Gesellsch. f. Erdkde. zu Berlin_, 7 (1880), S. 249-252; R. Fischer, _Mittelmeerbilder_, N. F. (Leipzig, 1907), S. 401 f. [32] Hugo Grothe, too, in _Die Asiatische Türkei und die deutschen Interessen_ (_Der neue Orient_, S. 25, 9 Heft), pleads for a closer feeling between the Germans and the Asia Minor Greeks. So, too, Blankenburg, Heft 1 of the _Schriftensammlung des Deutschen Vorderasienkomitees, Die Zukunftsarbeit der deutschen Schule in der Türkei_. [33] It is to be remembered that the higher professional places in the towns of Asia Minor are filled almost exclusively by Greeks. Teachers, doctors and engineers are for the most part Greeks and therefore among the higher engineering and administrative officials of the Anatolian and the Bagdad railways there are many Greeks. [34] The “Association d’Orient” in Athens. [35] See, for example, E. Naumann, _Vom Goldnen Horn zu den Quellen des Euphrat_ (1893), S. 208. [36] For complete details and examples illustrating these relations, see D. E. Oeconomides’ above cited work, pp. vii and viii. End of Project Gutenberg's Hellenism in Asia Minor, by Karl Dieterich