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Delphi A dramatic site on the steep slopes of Mount Parnassus, central Greece, famous in classical antiquity as the home of the Delphic oracle. It is likely that there was pre-Hellenic use as an earth deity shrine, and the setting, with its striking backdrop of cliff-face, rock fissures and springs, was...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Damascus Modem capital of Syria. A rich oasis city, Damascus was occupied by the 3rd millennium bc, but the settlements of the prehistoric, biblical and Roman periods underlie the modem and medieval city and are therefore not readily available for excavation. Egyptian texts and references in the Bible att...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Dacia A Roman frontier province held from cl06-270 ad, comprising an area to the north of the Danube and roughly equivalent to modem Rumania. The Dacians had constituted a threat to Rome for some time, and their leader Decebalus had to be recognized as a client king by Domitian. A more determined and s...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Corinth Major ancient Greek city on the Isthmus of Corinth, excavated since 1896 by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The city, with its exceptionally high acropolis on Acrocorinth Hill, profited from having ports on both the Corinthian and Saronic Gulfs and was an important trading cit...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Cairo The capital of modern Egypt. In 641, the Arab conqueror of Egypt, Amr Ibn al-As, built a new quarter, Fustat [‘The Tents’], outside the old town of Cairo. Among the first monuments erected in Fustat was the Mosque of Amr; the present structure, however, is almost entirely of the 19th century. New...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Byzantium Byzantine, later Constantinople, now Istanbul. In the 7th century bc Dorian Greeks founded the settlement of Byzantium on a trapezoidal promontory on the European side of the Bosporus channel which leads from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea and separates Europe from Asia. Thus began a city whi...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

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Byblos [Gebal, Gebail]. An important coastal settlement in Lebanon, north of Beirut, occupied for approximately 5000 years. The earliest settlement was a modest Neolithic village of the 6th millennium be with rectangular mud-brick houses with plastered floors. This settlement developed through several p...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Babylon The capital of Babylonia, situated on the Euphrates River south of Baghdad in modem Iraq. The city was occupied from the 3rd millennium bc but became important early in the 2nd millennium under the kings of Babylon’s First Dynasty (see Table 3, page 321). The sixth king of this dynasty was Hammur...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Baalbek A settlement in the Lebanon, which achieved importance in late Hellenistic and Roman times, especially as holy city for the predatory Ituraean tetrarchs, and as religious centre of the Beqa’a region. Often known by its Greek name of Heliopolis (City of the Sun), it shows magnificent ruins of the ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Ayutthaya [Ayut’ia, Ayuthya, Ayudhaj. A city in southern central Thailand, about 75 km north of Bangkok, founded in 1350 by king Ràmàdhipati to unify the countries of Syàm (Sukhothai) and Lavo (Lopburi). It became the capital of the powerful Thai kingdom of the same name for more than four centuries until ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Argos City in the northeast Pelopponese, Greece. Ancient Argos, which is mostly covered by the modem city, lay a few miles inland on the Argive plain, overlooked by two hills, the Larissa and the Aspis, both of which show early traces of use as a fortified centre or acropolis. The city is clearly of ce...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Antioch Ancient city near the River Orontes in Syria. The plain of Antioch was occupied from the Neolithic onwards (see Amuq), but the city itself was founded in 300 bc by Seleucus I after the death of Alexander the Great. Antioch was one of the two capitals of the Parthian Empire and was populated by in...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Alexandria Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 bc on a narrow strip of land in the northwestern area of the Nile Delta, Alexandria soon replaced Memphis as capital of Egypt. With its double harbour favourably situated at a natural intersection of the shipping lanes of the classical world, the new city rap...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Agordat Town in western Eritrea, Ethiopia, best-known archaeologically for the presence of four village sites, never excavated but attributed on the basis of surface collections to about the 3rd millennium be. The artefacts, notably the stone mace-heads and ground stone axes, show affinities to those of ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Agade See Akkad.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Adria [Atria]. Port in northeast Italy. A principal 6th-5th century BC port on the Adriatic, and important crossover point for Etruscan and Greek trade, linking the sea routes with Etruria, the Po Valley and northern Europe. Variously described as of Venetie, Greek or Etruscan foundation, the town seem...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Abydos Major town in northern Egypt, which was a centre for the worship of Osiris and the chosen burial place of the pharaohs of the First Dynasty (seeDynastic Egypt). The royal tombs consisted of large underground brick-built rooms lined with wood, covered by a low mound surrounded by a brick wall. Ear...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Adramytteion Adramyttion (modern Edremit) was a flourishing city in MYSIA, opposite LESBOS, overlooking the gulf to which it gave its name. Said to have been founded by Adramys, brother of CROESUS (Aristotle ap. Steph. Byz.s.v. Adramyteion) and reported to have beenthe seat of Croesus before his accession (Ni...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

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Philia Πληκτρολογήστε ιστότοπο για τον πολιτισμό Χαλκολιθικής III στη βόρεια Κύπρο, στα μέσα της 3ης χιλιετίας π.Χ. Χαρακτηρίζεται από κόκκινη γυαλισμένη κεραμική....Added by archaeologs | Greek|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Karmir-Blur Modern Erivan, Ermenistan yakınlarındaki Urartu şehri. Bir kale ve duvarlarla çevrili bir yerleşim alanı ile, çoğunlukla MÖ 7. yüzyılda yerleşim görmüştür. Urartu öncesi mezarlar ve Helenistik yerleşim vardır. 8. yüzyılda Urartu yerleşimi olarak Erebuni'nin yerini almış olabilir....Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Dara Dara Antik Kenti Mardin’in 30 kilometre güneydoğusunda bulunan Oğuz Köyü'nde yer almaktadır. Tarihte Yukarı Mezopotamya'nın en önemli yerleşim yerlerinden birisi olan Dara, İmparator Anastasius'un (491-518) girişimleriyle 505 yılında, Doğu Roma İmparatorluğu’nun doğu sınırını Sasanilere karşı kor...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Dara During the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius (491-518 AD), after more than 60 years of peace, a serious conflict with Persia broke out. It lasted from 502 to 506 AD and was known as the Anastasian War. It became the prelude to a long series of armed skirmishes, devastating both empires th...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

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Zeugma Zeugma started its existence as a Greek town, founded by Seleucus I Nicator, one of the Diadochi, the friends of Alexander the Great who fought for control over his empire after his death in 323 BCE. In ancient times, the name Zeugma encompassed the twin cities, perching on both banks of the Euph...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

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Philia Kuzey Kıbrıs'ta Kalkolitik III kültür alanı, MÖ 3. binin ortası. Kırmızı cilalı seramik ile karakterizedir.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Babylon Demir Çağı boyunca Babil krallığının kuzeydeki Asurlarla çalkantılı bir ilişkisi oldu. Kent semharib tarafından MÖ 689’da yıkıldı, ama oğlu Asurahiddina (saltanatı MÖ 680-669) tarafından büyük oranda tekrar inşa edildi. MÖ 612’de Asur devleti yıkıldığında, Muzaffer Medler gözlerini kuzeye çevirer...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Ancient Cities

Babylon Babil veya ”Tanrılar Kapısı”, antik yakındoğu’daki en ünlü kentlerden biridir. Pek çok Mezopotamya kenti gibi uzun bir geçmişe sahiptir. İlk olarak Erken Hanedanlar döneminde yerleşen Babil, MÖ 18. yüzyılda Hammurabi’nin saltanatı sırasında önem kazandı. Arkeolojik araştırmalar ve metinsel kanıtl...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Ancient Cities

Babylon Babylon. The capital of BABYLONIA, situated on the Euphrates River south of Baghdad in modem Iraq. The city was occupied from the 3rd millennium BC but became important early in the 2nd millennium under the kings of Babylon's First Dynasty (see Table 3, page 321 ). The sixth king of this dynasty ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Didyma In the ancient times, Didyma was famous as the place where a colossal Temple of Apollo stood, and the oracle revealed the future. In its heyday, Didyma was not a city, but a place of worship, connected with Miletus by the so-called Sacred Way. This road was used by the pilgrims who arrived at Did...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Didyma Antik dünyanın en önemli kehanet merkezlerinden biri olan Didyma Apollon Tapınağı, Aydın’ın Didim ilçesinde yer almaktadır. İyon’ya kent devletlerini oluşturan Efes, Priene gibi önemli kentlerin kehanet merkezliğini yapan Apollon Tapınağı’nın asıl bağlı olduğu Miletos antik kentinin kutsal alanıy...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Oxyrhynchus Ancient Greco-Roman town west of the Nile on the left bank of the Bahr Yusuf in Middle Egypt, best known for its papyri texts. Oxyrhynchus was a regional capital which was reasonably prosperous in the Roman period, and developed into a church and monastic center during the Coptic period. A large ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

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Liulige A town in Hui Xian, Hunan province, China, where many burials of the Shang and Eastern Chou periods have been excavated. The Shang burials, some containing bronze ritual vessels, belong to the Erligang Phase. Eastern Chou finds date from the 7th-2nd centuries BC, and include one of the largest of...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

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Philia Type site for Chalcolithic III culture in northern Cyprus, mid-3rd millennium BC. It is characterized by red polished pottery.Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

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Segesta Ancient city of Sicily, north of modern Calatafimi, which was the chief city of the Elymi. The Elymi may have been of Trojan origin; they are archaeologically indistinguishable in the Early Iron Age (c 1000-500 BC) from their Sicanian neighbors. Segesta had a Greek culture, but it often sided wit...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

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Megiddo A large tell on a natural hill in northern Palestine, a Biblical city. A town in the Early Bronze Age was built in the early 4th millennium BC and the site was sporadically occupied since the Neolithic and Chalcolithic. It became a great fortified center through its strategic position on the land...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

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Ajdabiya A town in northeastern Libya near the Gulf of Sidra that was the site of Roman and Byzantine colonization and a caravan junction from Egypt to the Maghreb and a trans-Saharan route from the Sudan during the early Middle Ages. There are ruins from the earlier colonization and two important monumen...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

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Nasik A town in western India, an important religious center attracting thousands of pilgrims annually because of the sanctity of the Godavari River and because of the legend that Rama, the hero of the Ramayana epic, lived there for a time with his wife Sita and his brother Laksmana. Nasik is the site ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

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Olynthus Ancient city of northern Greece, captured and destroyed by Philip of Macedon in 348 BC. Some late Neolithic settlement is followed after a gap by Iron Age occupation by Thracian tribes, perhaps from about 1000 BC. The 5th-4th centuries BC saw the classical Greek town caught up in alliances, misal...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

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Venosa A town in southern Italy that has a Lower Palaeolithic site with a hand axe or Acheulian level overlying one with abundant sidescapers (evolved Clactonian, Tayacian or Charentian?). Originally a settlement of the Lucanians (an ancient Italic tribe), it was taken by the Romans after the Samnite Wa...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

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