Priene: Greek city in western Turkey. See http://www.livius.org/pp-pr/priene/priene.html
Prine was ancient Ionian city in Anatolia ca 15 km north of Meander [modern Buyuk Menderes]. Originally city was situated on the sea coast on a slopes facing to the sea.
Pausanias: The Ionians who settled at Myus and Priene, they too took the cities from Carians. The founder of Myus was Cyaretus the son of Codrus, but the people of Priene, half Theban and half Ionian, had as their founders Philotas, the descendant of Peneleus, and Aepytus, the son of Neileus. The people of Priene, although they suffered much at the hands of Tabutes the Persian and afterwards at the hands of Hiero, a native, yet down to the present day are accounted Ionians.
- http://www.transanatolie.com/english/turkey/Architecture/priene.htm
- Ekrem Akurgal, Ancient Civilisations and Ruins of Turkey: From Prehistoric Times Until the End of the Roman Empir, II ed., Istanbul 1970, pp. 185-206
- Pausanias` Description of Greece, VII.2