Tripolis on the Meander (Greek: Τρίπολις, Eth. Greek: Τριπολίτης, Latin: Tripolis ad Maeandrum) – also Neapolis (Greek: Νεάπολις), Apollonia (Greek: Απολλωνία)...
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cities") may refer to: Tripolis (region of Arcadia), a district in ancient Arcadia, Greece Tripolis (Larisaia), an ancient Greek city in the Pelasgiotis district...
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called Apollonia Tripolis on the Meander, also called Apollonia Sainte-Apollonie island (Île de Sainte-Apollonie), on the Mayenne river in Pays de la...
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Turkey Neapolis, one of the other names of the Tripolis on the Meander In other countries: The old name of Nablus, Palestine The old name of Limassol (Lemesos)...
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Cretans. It was later called "on the Meander" to distinguish it from the nearby Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum. It was earlier the site of Leucophrys mentioned...
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Byzantium (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
well as the passage from the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea. On May 29, 1453, the city was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, and again became the capital...
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Yakub I of Germiyan (redirect from Germiyanlı Yakub Bey the First)
included Denizli and Karahisar, according to Nicephorus Gregoras, and Tripolis on the Meander, according to George Pachymeres. Ankara Malatya Denizli Afyonkarahisar...
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Ephesus (redirect from Ephesus in the middle ages)
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 century BC on the site...
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Antioch (redirect from Antioch-on-the-Orontes)
aspect of the struggle between Tripoli and Lesser Armenia, but the citizens again revolted against Raymond-Roupen in c. 1219 and Bohemond of Tripoli was recognised...
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Magnesia ad Sipylum (redirect from Magnesia on the Sipylum)
İzmir) on the river Hermus (now Gediz) at the foot of Mount Sipylus. The city should not be confused with its older neighbor, Magnesia on the Maeander...
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Troy (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
As a result, the archeological site that has been left is divided into nine layers, each corresponding to a city built on the ruins of the previous. Archaeologists...
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Thyatira (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
stood on the border between Lydia and Mysia. During the Roman era, (1st century AD), it was famous for its dyeing facilities and was a center of the purple...
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Colossae (redirect from Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Chonae)
(9.3 mi) southeast of Laodicea on the road through the Lycus Valley near the Lycus River at the foot of Mt. Cadmus, the highest mountain in Turkey's western...
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town of ancient Paphlagonia Antoniopolis, later name of Tripolis on the Meander, a town near the frontiers of ancient Phrygia, Lydia, and Caria This disambiguation...
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Smyrna (redirect from Smyrna in the middle ages)
Σμύρνα, Smýrna) was an Ancient Greek city located at a strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. Due to its advantageous port conditions, its ease...
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Labraunda (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
museum at Bodrum bear the head of Apollo on the obverse and on the reverse the name of the reigning Carian ruler inscribed next to the figure of Zeus Labraunda...
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The Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans (often simply called Smyrnaeans) is an epistle from circa 110 A.D. attributed to Ignatius of Antioch, a second-century...
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Çatalhöyük (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
before the Bronze Age. A channel of the Çarşamba River once flowed between the two mounds, and the settlement was built on alluvial clay which may have been...
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Olympus (Lycia) (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
to the northwest of the site. The exact date of the city's foundation is unknown. A wall and an inscription on a sarcophagus have been dated to the end...
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Halicarnassus (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
located in southwest Caria, on an advantageous site on the Gulf of Gökova, which is now in Bodrum, Turkey. The city was famous for the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus...
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Phocaea (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
Turkey) was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. Greek colonists from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia (modern-day Marseille...
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Büyük Menderes River (redirect from Meander River, Turkey)
The Büyük Menderes River ("Great Meander", historically the Maeander or Meander, from Ancient Greek: Μαίανδρος, Maíandros; Turkish: Büyük Menderes Irmağı)...
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Themiscyra (Pontus) (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
on the southern coast of the Black Sea, near the mouth of the Thermodon, probably at or near modern Terme. According to Greek mythology, it was the capital...
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Lydia (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
Constantinople. The ecclesiastical province of Lydia had a metropolitan diocese at Sardis and suffragan dioceses for Philadelphia, Thyatira, Tripolis, Settae...
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Germiyanids (category States and territories established by the Afshar tribe)
included Denizli and Karahisar, according to Nicephorus Gregoras, and Tripolis on the Meander, according to George Pachymeres. Ankara Malatya Denizli Afyonkarahisar...
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Hattusa (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1986. The earliest traces of settlement on the site are from the sixth millennium BC during the Chalcolithic...
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Zeugma (Commagene) (redirect from Seleucia on the Euphrates)
founder of the Seleucid Kingdom, on the site where he had the first bridge over the Euphrates built. In 64 BC, the Roman Republic gained control of the city...
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Kültepe (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
to the conquest of the city of Assur by the kings of Eshnunna, but Bryce blames it on the raid of Uhna. Some attribute Level Ib's burning to the fall...
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Laodicea on the Lycus (Greek: Λαοδίκεια πρὸς τοῦ Λύκου Laodikeia pros tou Lykou; Latin: Laodicea ad Lycum, also transliterated as Laodiceia or Laodikeia)...
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Aspendos (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
of Turkey. The site is located 40 km east of the modern city of Antalya. It was situated on the Eurymedon River about 16 km inland from the Mediterranean...
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