KUTAIAH

kutaiah, kutaya, or kiutahia, the chief town of a sanjak in the vilayet of brusa (khudavendikiar), asia minor, is situated on the pursaksu, an affluent of the sakaria (anc. _sangarius_). the town lies at an important point of the great road across asia minor from constantinople to aleppo, and is connected by a branch line with the main line from eski-shehr to afium kara-hissar, of the anatolian railway. it has a busy trade; pop. estimated at 22,000. kutaiah has been identified with the ancient cotiaeum. see v. cuinet, _turquie d'asie_, vol. iv. (paris, 1894).