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Location:

  • Türkiye, Elaia
  • geo:38.944481,27.040405
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -7xx / unknown

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • invisible

Identifiers:

Annotations

Aeolian Elaea, said to have been founded by Menestheus, leader of the Athenian contingent at the time of Troyan War 1. She appears in history about 450 BC, at the time of the Athenian naval league. Later in 190 BC it was besieged by Antiochus of Syria, in 156 by Prusias, who destroyed all the country. In 90 AD site sufferded from an earthquake.  Anyway she still was existing in Early Byzantine times. Durin Roman period struck its own coins2. As a suffragan of Ephesus Elaea is mentioned by most "Notitiae episcopatuum" as late as the twelfth or the thirteenth century3.

https://www.academia.edu/12997764/Elaia_der_maritime_Satellit_Pergamons

References

  1. George E. Bean, Aegean Turkey, London Benn Ltd., 1966, p. 112-116
  2. http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/aeolis/elaea/i.html
  3. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05371b.htm


Nearby

Elaea [Aeolois]

Harbour of Elaea

Kazıkbağları (1 km)

Milestone


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