Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Assos
- Ancient site.native_name
- ἌσσοςBehramkale
- Ancient site.image
- Assos-Tempel.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Ruins of the Temple of Athena in Assos
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey Marmara#Turkey
- Ancient site.map_size
- 285
- Ancient site.location
- Ayvacık, Çanakkale Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- Troad
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.builder
- Colonists from Mithymna
- Ancient site.built
- 10th century BC
- Ancient site.occupants
- Aristotle
- Ancient site.website
- Assos Archaeological Site
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thumb|Map of Assos
Assos (; , ) was an ancient Greek city near today's Behramkale () or Behram for short, which most people still call by its ancient name of Assos. It is located on the Aegean coast in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale province, Turkey. It is on the southern side of Biga Peninsula (better known by its ancient name of the Troad). Assos sits on the coast of the Adramyttian Gulf (Turkish: Edremit Körfezi) and used to offer the only good harbour along the of coast which made it very important for shipping in the Troad.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Assos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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