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Prusius ad HypiumPrusius ad HypiumPrusius ad HypiumPrusius ad Hypium theatherPrusius ad Hypium theatherPrusius ad Hypium, Medusa Head, Second century ADPrusias AqueductPrusias Su KemeriPrusias aqueduct

Location:

  • Türkiye, Konuralp
  • geo:40.905876,31.148333
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -300~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=11335

Annotations

Ancient City located within the boundaries of Konuralp, 8 kilometers north of the province of Düzce in the Western Black Sea Region is estimated to have been founded in the 3rd century BC by Prusias who captured the town of Kieros from the Heracleans, and took its name from here. In the last quarter of the 3rd century BC, King Prusias I of Bithynia captured Kieros and gave the city its own name. Later, the name of the city was changed to "Hypios / Hypium". The city, when came under the domination of Rome in 74 BC, experienced its most brilliant period.  During this period and monumental structures were built. Ancient City Prusias ad Hypium is under the settlement named Konuralp today.

See:

  1. Nezih Fıratlı, PRUSIAS AD HYPIUM (Konuralp or Üskübü) Turkey.-The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton University Press. 1976.
  2. Esra Okur Coşkunçay, Konuralp: A Town Between Antiquity and Today (Türkiye), Proceedings of the 2ndICAUD International Conference in Architecture and Urban DesignEpoka University, Tirana, Albania, 08-10 May 2014, Paper No. 236 (http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/bitstream/handle/1/1023/236.pdf?sequence=1)

TP Dusepro Solympum

PRUSIAS AD HYPIUM


Nearby

Prusias ad Hypium, Horse Gate

Hellenistic gate with image of horse. Atli Kapi.

Prusias Aqueduct

Prusias Aqueduct


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