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Location

  • Türkiye, Güllübahçe Turun
  • geo:37.65863,27.294609

Period or year

  • -3xx / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Alexandroon of Priene

data access 24180

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

Relevant museums

  • Pergamon Museum in Berlin
    Houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Market Gate of Miletus.
    Germany, Berlin

Nearby sites

Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-01-09) , last updated by p. jeffries (2024-03-12), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/24180
Data downloads: KML, RDF
Suggested citation: Elżbieta and Jeffries, P., Alexandroon of Priene. https://vici.org/vici/24180, accessed 2026-11-14.