Klazomenai
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Klazomenai () or Clazomenae was one of the 12 cities of ancient Ionia (the others being Chios, Samos, Phocaea, Erythrae, Teos, Lebedus, Colophon, Ephesus, Priene, Myus, and Miletus). It is located at the south coast of Smyrna Gulf, Ionia, and a member of the Ionian League. It was one of the first cities to issue silver coinage. Its ruins are now located in the modern town Urla near İzmir in İzmir Province, Turkey.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in landmark_region, across 6 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey, Former populated places in Turkey and Geography of İzmir Province.
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Klazomenai
- Ancient site.native_name
- Κλαζομεναί
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Clazomenae
- Ancient site.image
- Ionia499bc.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Coin from Klazomenai depicting a winged boar, 499 BC
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey
- Ancient site.map_alt
- Teos is located on the western coast of Turkey.
- Ancient site.map_size
- 270
- Ancient site.location
- Urla, İzmir Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- Ionia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
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- Ionia499bc.jpg
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- Klazomenai
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Location
- Mythology
- History
- Iron Age
- Classical Age
- Roman period
- Archaeology
- Ancient olive press
- Financial pioneers
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Klazomenai () or Clazomenae was one of the 12 cities of ancient Ionia (the others being Chios, Samos, Phocaea, Erythrae, Teos, Lebedus, Colophon, Ephesus, Priene, Myus, and Miletus). It is located at the south coast of Smyrna Gulf, Ionia, and a member of the Ionian League. It was one of the first cities to issue silver coinage. Its ruins are now located in the modern town Urla near İzmir in İzmir Province, Turkey.
==Location== Klazomenai is located in modern Urla (Vourla (Βουρλά) in Greek) on the western coast of Anatolia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of İzmir, at about west of İzmir. The city was originally located on the mainland at Limantepe, but probably during the early fifth-century BC Ionian Revolt from the Persians, it was moved to the Karantina Island just off the coast. Soon after that, the city of Chyton was founded on the mainland the late fifth-century BC. Both cities had conflictual relations but Alexander the Great eventually connected Karantina island to the mainland with a causeway, the remains of which are still visible.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Klazomenai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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