I found this delightfully sad blurb on a tourism website today while looking for a map of Uşak online:
Uşak itself, said to be of Seljuk origin, almost certainly stands on the site of the ancient, though not very important, Pelta. The present town, dominated by a dilapidated Byzantine citadel (Eucarpia), has few relics of the past, having been largely rebuilt in the 18th century after a fire.
PELTA, eh? Sounds a lot like...PELKA! Perhaps I have a not very important Seljuk past!
*a headline from yesterday's online edition of one of the English-language Turkish newspapers, Hurriyet
At least you're ancient!
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