lAeolian Aigai is located 2 km south of the village of Yuntdağıköseler. of Manisa Herodotus mentions Aigai as one of the dodecapolis 1founded by the Aeolians who came to Anatolia after 1100 BC. Aegae is mentioned by both Herodotus and Strabo. The city was especially famous for goat breeding, sold leather, textile and bone products during the Hellenistic Period. During the war between Bithynia and Pergamon, it was destroyed by Prusias II of Bithynia in 156 B2C. The city was destroyed by an earthquake in 17 AD and restored by emperor Tiberius. Aigai was abandoned after invasion of the Goths. for shorr period 12-13 century Aigai was inhabited.
Sources:
- Herodotus, Histories I.149
- Strabo, Geographica XIII.3.5
- Polybius, Histories V.77, xxIII.13
- William Mitchell Ramsay, "Contributions to the History of Southern Aeolis", in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2, 1881, pp. 271-308;
Références
- ↑Aegae is mentioned by both Herodotus and Strabo as being a member of the Aeolian dodecapolis.
- ↑ Prusias also undertook to repair the damage he had done to the territory of Methymna, Aegae, Cyme, and Heracleia, paying a hundred talents to those cities.