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    Satala (Ancient Greek: Σάταλα) or Satala in Lydia was a Roman era city and Bishopric in ancient Lydia. Its site is located near Adala in Asiatic Turkey...
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    Located in Turkey, the settlement of Satala (Old Armenian: Սատաղ Satał, Ancient Greek: Σάταλα), according to the ancient geographers, was situated in a valley...
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  • Satala may also refer to: Satala Aphrodite, a statue. Satala in Lydia, a Roman-era city. Satala Cemetery, is a place located on the north side of Pago Pago...
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    city in Ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th...
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    Troy (category World Heritage Sites in Turkey)
    romanized: Ī́lion, Hittite: 𒌷𒃾𒇻𒊭, romanized: Wiluša) was an ancient city located in present-day Hisarlık, Turkey. The place was first settled around 3600 BC and...
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    of Lydia and later a major center of Hellenistic and Byzantine culture. Now an active archaeological site, it is located in modern day Turkey, in Manisa...
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    Nicomedia (category Populated places established in the 3rd century BC)
    Nikomedeia; modern İzmit) was an ancient Greek city located in what is now Turkey. In 286, Nicomedia became the eastern and most senior capital city...
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    Byzantium (category Megarian colonies in Thrace)
    Thracian settlement and later a Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and which is known as Istanbul...
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    [anti.ó.kʰeː.a]) was a Hellenistic Greek city founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 300 BC. One of the most important Greek cities of the Hellenistic period,...
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    Side, Turkey (category Populated places established in the 7th century BC)
    Cyme in Aeolis, a region of western Anatolia. This most likely occurred in the 7th century BC. A basalt column base from the 7th century BC found in the...
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    Phocaea (category States and territories established in the 9th century BC)
    control and then, along with Lydia (who had allied itself with Sparta) were conquered by Cyrus the Great of Persia in 546 BC, in one of the opening skirmishes...
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    Notion (ancient city) (category Cities in ancient Aeolis)
    against the threat of Lydia. Notion itself was not big enough to send out colonies on its own." Persia conquered Colophon and Notion in the mid-sixth century...
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    Marmaris (category Mediterranean port cities and towns in Turkey)
    (marble; Turkish: mermer), in reference to the rich marble deposits in the region, and the prominent role of the city's port in the marble trade. It is not...
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    Chalcedon (category Greek colonies in Bithynia)
    sometimes transliterated as Khalqedon) was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor. It was located almost directly opposite Byzantium, south of Scutari...
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    Çatalhöyük (category World Heritage Sites in Turkey)
    proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 6400 BC and flourished around 7000 BC. In July 2012, it was inscribed...
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    Ani (category World Heritage Sites in Turkey)
    Latin: Abnicum; Turkish: Anı) is a ruined medieval Armenian city now situated in Turkey's province of Kars, next to the closed border with Armenia. Between...
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    Gabala, Satala, Aureliopolis and Hellenopolis. Bishops from the various dioceses of Lydia were well represented at the Council of Nicaea in 325 and at...
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    Themiscyra (Pontus) (category Greek colonies in Pontus)
    Themiscyra (/ˌθɛmɪˈskɪrə/; Greek: Θεμίσκυρα Themiskyra) was an ancient Greek town in northeastern Anatolia; it was situated on the southern coast of the Black...
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    Patara (Lycia) (category Populated places in ancient Lycia)
    to the village of Gelemiş, in Antalya Province. Saint Nicholas was born in the town in 270, and lived most of his life in the nearby town of Myra. Only...
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    Knidos (category Archaeological sites in the Aegean Region)
    [knídos], Modern: [ˈkniðos], Knídos) was a Greek city in ancient Caria and part of the Dorian Hexapolis, in south-western Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey. It...
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    far inland. This enabled Greek trading ships to sail into the heart of Lydia, making the city part of an essential trade route between Anatolia and the...
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    Kayaköy (category Catholic titular sees in Asia)
    anciently known in Greek as Karmylessos (Ancient Greek: Καρμυλησσός), shortened to Lebessos (Ancient Greek: Λεβέσσος) and pronounced in Modern Greek as...
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    Hattusa (category World Heritage Sites in Turkey)
    Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods. Its ruins lie near modern...
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    Kaleköy (category Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey)
    Kaleköy (literally "Castle's village" in Turkish) is a village of the Demre district in the Antalya Province of Turkey, located between Kaş and Demre...
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    against powerful Lydia at home, and the tyrant Polycrates of its neighbor to the west, Samos. When Cyrus of Persia defeated Croesus of Lydia in the middle of...
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    Manisa (category Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey)
    Jewish Community". George Perrot (2007). History of Art In Phrygia, Lydia, Caria And Lycia (in French and English). Marton Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-4067-0883-7...
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    Myra (category Archaeological sites in Antalya Province)
    Roman Empire and then the Ottoman in Lycia, which became the small Turkish town of Kale, renamed Demre in 2005, in the present-day Antalya Province of...
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    Halicarnassus (category Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey)
    ancient Greek city in Caria, in Anatolia. It was located in southwest Caria, on an advantageous site on the Gulf of Gökova, which is now in Bodrum, Turkey...
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    Xanthos (category World Heritage Sites in Turkey)
    Latin: Xanthus) was an ancient city near the present-day village of Kınık, in Antalya Province, Turkey. The ruins are located on a hill on the left bank...
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    Dara (Mesopotamia) (category Roman towns and cities in Turkey)
    fortress city in northern Mesopotamia on the border with the Sassanid Empire. Because of its great strategic importance, it featured prominently in the Roman-Persian...
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