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Maydos KilisetepeSestos DecreeKilitbahir CastleBahşili Stones

Location:

  • Türkiye, Abydos
  • geo:40.200001,26.4
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Site of historic event
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=21871

Annotations


Nearby

Xerxes' Bridge

Xerxes' pontoon bridges were constructed in 480 BC during the second Persian invasion of Greece upon the order of Xerxes I of Persia for the purpose of Xerxes’ army to traverse the Hellespont.

Abydos (Hellespont)

Abydos is mentioned in the Iliad as a Trojan ally and, according to Strabo, was occupied by Bebryces and later Thracians after the Trojan War. It has been suggested that the city was originally a Phoenician colony as there was a temple of Aphrodite

Abydos - Tayyaretepe

Late Chalcolithic and EBA settlement.


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