Magnesia Magnesia was founded in the archaic period by settlers originally from Thessalian .
Magnesia. Large and important city, the oracle of Apollo at Delphi declared that Magnesia and its environs were sacred ground. Nevertheless some time between 726 BC and 660 BC Magnesia was destroyed by the Cimmerians and deserted.
See:
- http://www.livius.org/maa-mam/magnesia/magnesia_meander.html
- Marie Saldaña, Cave and City: A Procedural Reconstruction of the Urban Topographyof Magnesia on the Maeander, 2015 - http://escholarship.org/uc/item/12t2m3s6
- Ekrem Akurgal, Ancient Civilisations and Ruins of Turkey: From Prehistoric Times Until the End of the Roman Empir, II ed., Istanbul 1970, pp. 177-184
- Magnesia am Maeander : Bericht über die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen der Jahre, 1891-1893 by Humann, Carl, 1839-1896; Berling, Staatliche Museen; Kohte, Julius, 1861-; Watzinger, Carl, 1877-1948 (Internet Archive - online)
