- hover here for a view of the station square with German soldiers in 1917 -

The German caption reads: ‘Best regards from Eskichehr, to friends and patrons of Otto Siers, the globe trotter’. Seems the German (?) ran a hotel for a time in this town he loved?

This hotel was founded and run by a Ms Tadia who arrived from Austria to take advantage of the passing railway traffic in this town, a day’s ride Haydarpasa terminus.

The resident Catholic population may have been engaged in the export of products of the area such as wool, mining of borax?