or ENGURI (the Anycra of the ancients), a town of Natalia, capital of a sandjak of the same name. It stands on an eminence 140 miles north of Konch, in Lat. 40° 2' N.; Long. 33° 5' E. Its population is variously estimated at from 20,000 to 60,000, including Mahometans, Armenians, Greeks, and Jews. There are still to be seen remains of the celebrated Monumentum Ancyranum, a temple of white marble erected by the inhabitants in honour of Augustus, who improved and embellished the city. On the walls of this temple is an inscription in Greek and Latin, a great part of which is still legible, detailing the principal events in the life of Augustus.—(See Hamilton's Researches in Asia Minor, &c., 1842.) Angora has long been celebrated for its breed of goats, which annually yield about 500,000 okes (11,200 cwt.) of hair for exportation. Among its exports are also wheat, opium, gum, wax, and honey. In its vicinity are many fine gardens.

Ancyra originally belonged to Phrygia, and afterwards became the chief town of the Tectosages, one of the three Gallic tribes that settled in Galatia about B.C. 277. In B.C. 189 Galatia was subdued by Manlius, and in B.C. 25 it was formally made a Roman province, of which Ancyra was the capital. On the division of Galatia by Theodosius I. or Valens, Ancyra became the capital of Galatia Prima. It was the seat of one of the earliest Christian churches founded probably by the apostle Paul; and a council was held here in 315. In 1402 a great battle was fought in the vicinity of Ancyra, in which the Turkish sultan Bajazet was defeated and made a prisoner by Tamerlane, the famous Tartar conqueror. In 1415 it was recovered by the Turks under Mahomet I., and since that period it has always belonged to the Ottoman Empire.