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EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
After Spartian power in the Aegean was destroyed by Conon in 394 B.C., Iasos was rebuilt, possibly with the aid of Knidos, and it joined a league of Aegean states that included Ephesos, Rhodes, Samos, and Byzantium.
DIDYMA (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
The temple at Didyma with its shrine and place of divination was plundered and burnt. (Hdt. 6.19.3)
Alexander destroyed also the city of the Branchidae, whom Xerxes had settled there -people who voluntarily accompanied him from their homeland- because of the fact that they had betrayed to him the riches and treasures of the god at Didymi. Alexander destroyed the city, they add, because he abominated the sacrilege and the betrayal .. The Branchidae gave over the treasures of the god to the Persian king, and accompanied him in his flight in order to escape punishment for the robbing and the betrayal of the temple. (Strab.11.11.4)
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Strabo (iv. p. 179) found in some of his authorities a story that the Phocaeans before they sailed to Gallia were told by an oracle to take a guide from Artemis of Ephesus ; and accordingly they went to Ephesus to ask the goddess how they should obey the oracular order. The goddess appeared to Aristarche, one of the women of noblest rank in Ephesus, in a dream, and bade her join the expedition, and take with her a statue from the temple. Aristarche went with the adventurers, who built a temple to Artemis, and made Aristarche the priestess. In all their colonies the Massaliots established the worship of Artemis, and set up the same kind of wooden statue, and instituted the same rites as in the mother-city. For though Phocaea founded Massalia, Ephesus was the city which gave to it its religion.
MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Ephorus says: Miletus was first founded and fortified above the sea by the Cretans, where the Miletus of olden times is now situated, being settled by Sarpedon, who brought colonists from the Cretan Miletus and named the city after that Miletus, the place formerly being in the possession of the Leleges; but later Neleus and his followers fortified the present city (Strab. 14,1,6).
TRALLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Tralleis is said to have been founded by Argives and by certain Tralleian Thracians, and hence the name.
MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
City of Asia Minor.
In mythology, Miletus was said to have been founded by Neleus, a son
of Codrus, the last king of Athens,
with Ionians from Attica
joined by Messenians fleeing the Heraclidae.
According to Herodotus, Miletus was one of 12 cities founded in Asia
Minor by Ionians fleeing the southern shores of the gulf of Corinth
west of Sicyon in northern
Peloponnese when the area
was conquered by Achaeans, and gathered in the Ionian Confederacy (the Paniones).
Herodotus then adds that settlers from many parts of Greece
joined Ionians in these cities and scorns at the pretense of nobility of these
supposedly “purer” Ionians, especially those coming from Athens,
that is, the settlers of Miletus, who had to take wives among the women of the
area for lack of Ionian women.
Miletus was one of the most active cities in founding colonies in
the Hellespont and along
the coast of the Black Sea
in the VIIth and VIth centuries B. C. It was also, along with Samos and a few
other cities from Asia Minor,
at the origin of Naucratis, a trade post in the Nile
delta area in Egypt, in fact
the only Greek city in Egypt.
Miletus was the birthplace of several Presocratic philosophers called
the Milesian from the name of that city. They include Thales, Anaximander and
Anaximenes.
Bernard Suzanne (page last updated 1998), ed.
This extract is cited July 2003 from the Plato and his dialogues URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks.
Foundation of the Hellenic World
MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The Ionians then came there with their ships manned, and with them
the Aeolians who dwell in Lesbos. This was their order of battle: The Milesians
themselves had the eastern wing, bringing eighty ships; next to them were the
Prieneans with twelve ships, and the Myesians with three; next to the Myesians
were the Teians with seventeen ships; next to these the Chians with a hundred;
near these in the line were the Erythraeans, bringing eight ships, and the Phocaeans
with three, and next to these the Lesbians with seventy; last of all in the line
were the Samians, holding the western wing with sixty ships. The total number
of all these together was three hundred and fifty-three triremes.
MYOUS (Ancient city) TURKEY
At the battle of Lade in 494 B.C. Myous contributed three ships to the Ionian fleet
PRIINI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Povided twelve ships at the battle of Lade in 494 B.C.
ANEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
The Ephesians under Androclus made war on Leogorus, the son of Procles, who reigned in Samos after his father, and after conquering them in a battle drove the Samians out of their island, accusing them of conspiring with the Carians against the Ionians. The Samians fled and some of them made their home in an island near Thrace, and as a result of their settling there the name of the island was changed from Dardania to Samothrace. Others with Leogorus threw a wall round Anaea on the mainland opposite Samos, and ten years after crossed over, expelled the Ephesians and reoccupied the island.
MAGNESIA ON MEANDROS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Magnesia on the Maeander, a colony of the Magnesians of Thessaly and the Cretans
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