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Location:

  • Türkiye, Güllübahçe Turun
  • geo:37.65863,27.294609
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -3xx / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=24180

Annotations

Alexandroon at Priene situated at the western gate side of the city. This was the house where Alexander the Great who, according to tradition,  stayed during his siege against nearby Miletus. Actually this building was the temple in which Alexander the Great was worshipped.

Sources:

  1. Ekrem Akurgal, Ancient Civilisations and Ruins of Turkey: From Prehistoric Times until the end of the Roman Turkish Historical Society Press, Ankara 1970, pp. 186, 187, 205-206

Nearby

Kybele Temple at Priene

Hellenistic temple of Kybele

Priene (Güllübahçe) West Gate

W. gate remains ca. 350-330 bce

Market of Priene

Fish and Meat market place


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