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KIL1S AND A'ZAZ.
[CHAP. XVIII.
Amongst these, however, may be noticed the ruins near the
village of Corus; the latter being situated on the slopes of the
Taurus, 1 about 40 miles north by west of Aleppo, or nearly the
distance given in the Itinerary; it is probable that the ruins are
those of Cyrrhus, the chief town of the ancient Cyrrhestica.
Fifteen miles south-east by east from thence, and on the lowest
slopes of Taurus, is Kills, the seat of a Turkoman government,
whose limits nearly correspond with those of the province
just mentioned. The town, which occupies a valley opening
southward, and the slopes above it, is of stone, and tolerably
well built; it contains an inferior bazar, 23 good mosques,
some baths, and about 12,000 inhabitants ; these consisting of
Armenians, Turks, Kurds, and Turkomans, but chiefly the
last, who are at once agriculturists and carriers; and the site
appears to correspond with that of ancient Ciliza, being .32
miles north of Aleppo.
Ten miles south-west of the preceding town, and about 26
miles north by west of Aleppo is A'zaz, a Kasabah in three
separate portions, containing about 250 badly-built houses
partly enclosing a Tell, which is rather larger than the
generality of those on the plain of Aleppo. The mound is
nearly circular, and partly of lime-stone, with a circumference
of about 250 yards at the base, and 90 yards at the top of the
cone, which is about 120 feet high; its natural kernel having
been increased to this extent in order that the work might be
more defensible. As this place appears to represent the Arsace
of the Itinerary, the walls on its summit may be the remains of
the citadel, which probably occupied this commanding ground,
and opposed for a time both the conquests of Salah-ed-din/
and the advance of Taimur Beg; the latter, having got pos
session of it, bestowed some care in strengthening its fortifi
cations. Previously to its occupation by that chief, it was a
fief of the Latins, who had been called in to protect the place
against the sultan of Aleppo. 3 Eight miles S.S.W. of A'zaz,
and near Basul, are the remains of two ruined convents; and
1 Corus ' built on the side of the Taurus, two days from Munbedj.—Edrisi,
tome VI., p. 139.—Recueil de Voyages, &c.
2 Hist, des Huns, tome II., p. 232. 3 Ibid., II., pp. 97, 98.