Editing Manisa (section)

==Name and etymology==
[[File:KybeleManisa.JPG|thumb|[[Hittites|Hittite]]&ndash;[[Luwians|Luwian]] rock carving of Cybele in [[Mount Sipylus]] (13th century BC).]]

Historically, the city was also called ''Magnesia'', and more precisely as [[Magnesia ad Sipylum]], to distinguish it from [[Magnesia on the Maeander]] at a relatively short distance to the south. Traditional view held that the name "Magnesia" is derived from the tribe of [[Magnetes]] who would have immigrated here from [[Thessaly]] at the dawn of the region's recorded history.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Freely |first1=John |title=A travel guide to Homer: on the trail of Odysseus through Turkey and the Mediterranean |date=2014 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |location=London |isbn=978-0857734945 |quote=Magnesia ad Sipylum, was north-east of Smyrna under Mt Sipylus; [...] The founders of these two cities were said to be Aeolians from Magnesia in northern Greece, the so-called Magnetes...}}</ref> A connection with native [[Anatolian languages]] has also been suggested, particularly on the basis of discoveries made in the [[Hittites|Hittite]] archives.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}} The name is rendered as Μαγνησία in ancient and modern [[Greek language]].

The name "Magnesia ad Sipylus" refers to [[Mount Sipylus]] (Mount Spil) that towers over the city and Magnesia became a city of importance starting with the [[Roman Republic|Roman]] dominion, particularly after the 190 BC [[Battle of Magnesia]]. The names "Sipylus" or "Sipylum" in reference to a settlement here are also encountered in some sources, again in reference to the mountain and as abbreviated forms. [[Pliny the Elder]], supported by other sources, mentions that formerly in the same place was a very celebrated city which was called "Tantalis" <ref>{{cite book | title = History of Art In Phrygia, Lydia, Caria And Lycia | page=62 | isbn=978-1-4067-0883-7|author= George Perrot |publisher=Marton Press|year= 2007|language= fr, en}}</ref> or "the city of [[Tantalus]]" whose ruins were still visible around his time.<ref>{{cite book | title = Pausanias, and other Greek sketches, later retitled Pausanias's Description of Greece|  isbn=978-1-4286-4922-4|author= James George Frazer|author-link= James George Frazer|publisher=[[Kessinger Publishing Company]]|orig-date= 1900|year=1965}}</ref>

Under Turkish rule, the name attached to the [[Bey]]s of "[[Sarukhanids|Saruhan]]", who founded the [[Anatolian Turkish Beyliks|Beylik]] which preceded the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]] in the region, has been officially used, along with the name Manisa, for the city and the region alternatively and this until the present period of the [[Republic of Turkey]]. The [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]] form of the name "Manisa" (ماغنيسا) was usually as it is still used presently, but a spelling with a longer first syllable, transcribed to modern Turkish as "Mağnisa", was also occasionally encountered. During the first centuries of the Ottoman Empire, many of the sons of [[sultan]]s received their education in Manisa and the city is still commonly known in Turkey as "the city of shahzades" (''Şehzadeler şehri''), a distinctive title it shares only with [[Amasya]] and [[Trabzon]].

The English language [[root word]] ''"[[magnesia (mineral)|magnesia]]"'', from which the words ''"[[magnet]]"'' and ''"[[magnetism]]"'' and numerous other [[derivation (linguistics)|derivations]] were coined, as well as their equivalents in many other languages, may derive from the city's name.