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İldır (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 38 23 02 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 38.3839 decimal degrees |
| Long: 026 28 36 E degrees minutes |
Long: 26.4767 decimal degrees |
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Note: Seaside village on the Aegean Sea; excavations reveal that the village is built upon ruins of the larger ancient Greek city of Erythrea. Erythrea was an ancient Ionic city on the Mimas (now Kara Burun) peninsula in western Turkey. Site of original traditionally Cretan settlement is uncertain, but from the 4th century BCE city of this name was located at modern Ildir, where traces of wall circuit are visible. About 453 BCE Erythrae refused to pay tribute and seceded from the Delian League. A garrison and a new government restored the union, but late in the Peloponnesian War in 412 BCE it revolted again with Chios and Clazomenae. Freed from Persian rule by Alexander in 334 BCE, it supported the diadochos Antigonus I Monophthalmus. A free city in the Roman province of Asia, Erythrae was noted for its wine, goats, timber, and millstones, as well as its prophetic sibyls, Herophile and Athenais. |
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| İldır (preferred,C,V,Turkish,U)
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| İldırı (C,V)
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| Erythrae (H,V,S,English-P,U)
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| Erythrai (H,V)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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İzmir (province) (P) |
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İldır (inhabited place) (P,U) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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| village (C) |
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| ancient site (C) |
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| archaeological site (C) |
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| city (H) |
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| Ionic (H) |
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