a market-town on the Maros, in the Austrian province of Transylvania. It contains a Catholic, a Greek, and a Reformed church, and a Franciscan monastery. The inhabitants, who are chiefly Bulgarians and Magyars, amount to 3500.

ALYATTES, king of Lydia, father of Croesus. He was buried under an immense tumulus near Sardis, by the lake Gygea; which is described by Chandler as still retaining the form mentioned by Herodotus, among a multitude of smaller tumuli, though erected 562 years B.C.

ALYZIA, an ancient city of Acarnania, about 15 stadia from the coast, the ruins of which are still to be seen in the valley of Kandile.