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Called Assos in ancient times (and sometimes today) Orioles Zach Britton Jersey , Beh ram kale is a divided city: half its inhabitants live around the imposing ruins, set on a hill, the others in the small port below. Assos (daily 8.30amsunset; charge) may have been a Hit tite settlement in the 13th century BC, but its true rise began in the 8th century BC when settlers from the Greek island of Lesbos took root here. They constructed a terraced city, much of which remains, on an impregnable site above Aegean shipping routes. In the 4th century BC, Hermias, a former student at Plato's Academy in Athens, rose to power, instituted a regime based on the Platonic notion of the philosopherking and founded a school of philosophy,

attracting Aristotle, who eventually married the king's niece. After Hermias's execution by the Persians, the city passed from one ruling power to the next; the medieval Ottomans dismantled much of the ancient town for building stone. The view from the ancient acropolis is wonderful down the coast, and over to Lesbos. An American archaeological team is currently restoring the 6thcentury BC Temple of Athena. Around lie the remains of the ancient agora, gymnasium and theatre. The necropolis is well preserved, strewn with pieces of the limestone sarcophagi for which ancient Assos was famous, and about 3km (2 miles) of the old city walls are intact. A curiously modern note is struck by the simply proportioned 14thcentury Murad Hudav endigar Camii.

The little fishing harbour, at the bottom of a steeply twist ing road, has a compact collection of restaurants and hotels popular with the Istanbul art set. Since the Greeks are encamped only 8km (5 miles) away, at Lesbos, the town also has its own border police.

Follow the coast road around the Gulf of Edrernit to the charm ing city of Ayvahk, 131km (81 miles) south of Behramkale. Founded by Ottoman Greeks in the 16th century, it was a prosperous, ethnically Greek city left all but empty after its in habitants were ejected from Turkey in 1923. It's since been re settled, but its square stone houses and narrow, winding streets overhung with balconies and lined with lovely carved wood en doorways still feel Greek. Stop at the busy central bazaar where cobblers and metalsmiths ply their trades. Tall minarets mark the city's mosques; note especially Saatli Camii (for merly Agios Ioannis), named after its clocktower. The mosques are mainly former Greek Orthodox churches.

The best beaches are several kilometres south of the city at Sarimsakh, heavily developed with lines of holiday hotels, bars, discos and restaurants. Boat excursions leave from Ay vahk (near the information booth on the waterfront) every morning. The trip lasts for most of the day and includes the nearby islands such as Alibey Adasi, popular with ancient travellers including Plinys Elder and Younger and Ptolemy, and makes frequent stops for a swim.

Pergamon, 54km (33 miles) south of Ayvalik on Route E87, was once the royal city of the Attalids, and the most magnif icent Hellenistic city in Asia Minor. Give yourself plenty of time here, for this was one of the greatest and most beautiful of all Greek cities, and its ruins speak eloquently of its past. The city became famous in the 3rd century BC when Lysi machus, a general in Alexander's army, deposited his consid erable treasure behind its walls for safekeeping. Sadly, he died in battle not long after. His officer, Philetarus, inherited the lot and set about founding a dynasty, adopting (he is said to have been a eunuch) a nephew, Eumenes, to succeed him.

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VALLETTA， Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- Maltese has been confirmed as the most obese in the European Union(EU)， an online report issued by Eurostat on Thursday showed.

Nearly one in every six persons aged 18 or over in the EU was obese in 2014. More than one in four adults in Malta (26 percent) was considered obese， followed by about one in five in Latvia (21.3 percent)， Hungary (21.2 percent)， Estonia (20.4 percent) and the UK (20.1 percent).

Among the EU Member States for which data are available， the lowest shares of adult obesity in 2014 were recorded in Romania (9.4 percent) and Italy (10.7 percent)， ahead of the Netherlands(13.3 percent)， Belgium and Sweden (both 14.0 percent).

These information emerged in the European Health Interview Survey which is issued by Eurostat， the statistical office of the EU.

While 46.1 percent of adults living in the EU had a normal weight in 2014， slightly more than half of the adults (51.6 percent) were considered as over-weight (35.7 percent pre-obese and 15.9 percent obese) and a further 2.3 percent as under-weight.

The share of obese adults clearly varies between age groups and according to education level. With the exception of those aged 75 or over， the older the age group， the higher the share of obese persons: the obesity share in the EU stood at 22.1 percent for people aged 65 to 74， while it was 5.7 percent for those aged 18 to 24. In Malta， about one young adult out of 10(12.0 percent) was considered obese and about one in three older persons (33.6 percent).

The pattern is also clear for education level: the proportion of obese persons in the EU falls as the educational level rises. Indeed， while the percentage of obese persons among those with low education level reached 19.9 percent， it decreased to 16.0 percent for those with a medium education level and to 11.5 percent for the population with a high education level.

Although no systematic difference in obesity levels between men and women was recorded， the proportion of obesity was higher for men in half of the EU states， and higher for women in the other half.

At EU level， the share of obesity was almost equal in 2014 between men (16.1 percent) and women (15.7 percent).In Malta， the proportion of obese men is much higher than that of women (28.1 . David Luiz Brazil Jersey Wholesale Switzerland Jerseys Jacob Rinne Sweden Jersey Nacho Fernandez Spain Jersey Meliton Hernandez Mexico Jersey Mario Gotze Germany Jersey Wholesale Team North America Jerseys Wholesale Dallas Stars Jerseys Wholesale Buffalo Sabres Jerseys Wholesale Detroit Red Wings Jerseys