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Hellenistic Greek ancient city sacred sites

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Knidos
Ancient Greek

Knidos

Datça Peninsula, Muğla, Aegean Region, Turkey

Knidos stands at the extreme western point of the Datça Peninsula, where the Aegean gives way to the Mediterranean....

Miletus
Ancient Greek

Miletus

Aydın, Didim / Balat, Turkey

Miletus was once the most powerful city in the Greek world—birthplace of the Milesian philosophers who first sought rational explanations for the cosmos, and the starting...

Iasos
Ancient Greek

Iasos

Muğla, Kıyıkışlacık, Turkey

Iasos occupies a rocky promontory in the Gulf of Güllük that was once a true island, connected to the mainland only by a narrow causeway....

Priene
Ancient Greek

Priene

Söke, Aydın, Aegean Region, Turkey

Priene is the most completely preserved Hellenistic city on Earth — a street grid carved into the hillside below Mount Mycale, still legible after two thousand years of...

Old Smyrna
Ancient Greek

Old Smyrna

Turkey

Within a residential neighbourhood of modern İzmir, the Tepekule mound rises ten metres above the surrounding streets — a compressed record of human settlement from the...

Magnesia on the Maeander
Ancient Greek

Magnesia on the Maeander

Tekin / Germencik area, Aydın, Aegean Region, Turkey

Magnesia on the Maeander was the city of Artemis Leucophryene, the white-browed goddess who appeared to her people in a theophany and prompted one of the most remarkable...

Nysa
Ancient Greek

Nysa

Aydın, Sultanhisar, Turkey

Nysa on the Maeander was a Hellenistic city of unusual distinction — the mythological birthplace valley of Dionysus, a renowned center of philosophical scholarship, and...

Klazomenai
Ancient Greek

Klazomenai

İzmir, Urla / Limantepe zone, Turkey

Klazomenai was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, established on the western Anatolian coast in the first millennium BCE....

Aigai
Ancient Greek

Aigai

Turkey

On a high shoulder of the Yunt Mountains in Manisa Province, the ancient city of Aigai held something rare: the principal oracle sanctuary of the entire Aiolis region,...

Assos
Ancient Greek

Assos

Turkey

A volcanic hilltop city above the Aegean, Assos holds the only Archaic Doric temple in Anatolia and the site of Aristotle's philosophical academy....

Teos
Ancient Greek

Teos

İzmir, Seferihisar, Turkey

Teos was an Ionian coastal city that served as the worldwide headquarters of the Dionysiac Artists guild — the professional association of actors, musicians, and poets who...

Kaunos
Ancient Greek

Kaunos

Muğla, Dalyan, Turkey

Kaunos is an ancient Carian city whose most striking feature is a row of spectacular rock-cut tombs carved high into a vertical cliff face above the Dalyan River....

Blaundus
Ancient Greek

Blaundus

Uşak, Ulubey, Turkey

Blaundus was founded by veterans of Alexander the Great's army on a dramatically narrow cliff-ringed peninsula jutting into the Ulubey canyon system in western Anatolia....

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