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Byzantine fortress in MyusByzantine fortress in Myus

Location:

  • Türkiye, Avşar
  • geo:37.596642,27.428856
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -500~ / -100~

Class:

  • Workshop or industry
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=64599

Annotations

Then one comes to Myus Harbour, which is also called Aphrodite's Harbour; it is a large harbour with a winding entrance, off which lie three islands; two of these are densely shaded with olive trees, while  p317 the third is less so and is full of guinea-fowls1.

Sources:

  1. Strabo, The Geography Book VII, Chapterr IV.5
  2. Lukas Thommen, An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome, Cambridge University Press,  2012, p. 27

 

References

  1. The Geography of Strabo published in Vol. VII of the Loeb Classical Library edition,1932


Nearby

Myus

Myous or Myos, was an ancient Greek city.

Myus

Myus

Myus, Apollo Terbintheus Temple

Remains of the Apollo temple.


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