Kaupangr

A city in Norway founded in 997 by King Olaf I Tryggvason; he built a church and a royal residence, Kongsgård, there. The pottery, glass and coins from the excavations indicate that the site flourished in the 9th century. Like Hedeby and Birka, Kaupangr seems to have maintained extensive contacts...

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Kaupangr

Scoglio Del Tonno

Prehistoric site on a promontory projecting into the harbor of Taranto in Puglie, Italy, where a Middle and Late Bronze Age settlement existed. It was first occupied during the Late Neolithic by people suing Serra D'Alto Ware. It was then abandoned but resettled in the mid-2nd millennium BC by a ...

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Scoglio Del Tonno

Zhob

A valley in north Baluchistan, western Pakistan, with a number of sites of a Chalcolithic culture, c 4th-3rd millennia BC. Rana Ghundai, Periano Ghundai, and Moghul Ghundai are the best-known sites. The pottery is painted black or red over a red slip; decoration may be stylized humped cattle and ...

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Zhob

Tikal

Large and important site of the Maya people in the rain forest of Petén, Guatemala, dating to 800 BC. The earliest buildings were constructed in 800 BC when it was a simple farming village. It is the most thoroughly studied of the great lowland Maya sites and peaked c 600-800 AD in the Classic pe...

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Tikal

Marzabotto

An Etruscan occupation site, 25 km from Bologna, northern Italy, in the Reno valley. It was probably set on an important Etruscan trade route. Its 6th-century BC phase was characterized by plain, primitive dwellings and had evidence of metalworking. In a 5th-century BC stage, the city appears to ...

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Marzabotto

Eshnunna

An ancient city under the mound of Tell Asmar, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. It was a city-state in the Early Dynastic period (early 3rd millennium BC) and there are shrines, sculpture, palaces, and private houses. It became politically important in the 19th and 18th centuries BC, when it was invol...

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Eshnunna

Argos

City in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, just north of the head of the Gulf of Argolis. The name was applied to several districts of ancient Greece but it is most often used to describe the easternmost part of the Peloponnesian peninsula and the city of Argos was its capital. Homer describ...

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Argos

Peristeria

Early Mycenaean settlement, c 1550-1400 BC, in Messenia, Greece. It was one of the most prosperous and powerful settlements. Four tholos tombs contained rich offerings; the East House may have been a palace.

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Peristeria

Kyzikos

Cyzicus or Cyzicos, (Greek: Kyzikos) anc. town in the region of Mysia in N.-W. Anatolia, mod. Turkey; said to have been founded by Pelasgians from Thessaly.

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Kyzikos

Aratta

Sümer destanında adı geçen bir yerleşim adı. MÖ 3. binyılda Mezopotamya ile uzun mesafeli ticaret ilişkilerinde bulunmuştur.

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Aratta

A site name mentioned in a Sumerian epic that was supposedly involved in long-distance trade with Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BC.

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Aratta

Thera

Girit'in kuzeyindeki Güney Kiklad adası üzerinde kurulmuş olan bir antik kent. Bronz Çağı boyunca Akrotiri'de yerleşim görmüştür. Minos etkisi oldukça fazla görülür.

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Thera

Thera [modern Santorini]. Southern Cycladic island clOO km north of Crete. During the Bronze Age there was a thriving settlement at Akrotiri, which came strongly under MINOAN influence, demonstrated by, for instance, the fine frescoes on the walls of the houses. At the end of the Late Minoan A pe...

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Thera

Rhodes

Hellen Dili’nde Dodecanesa olarak anılan On İki Adalar’ın en doğusunda yer alan ve bu adaların tarih boyunca yönetim merkezi olmuş olan Rodos, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’ne 19 km. uzaklıkta bulunan ve Akdeniz’in dokuzuncu büyük adası olarak, bulunduğu coğrafi konumu ile bütün tarihinin özdeşleştiği, örn...

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Rhodes

A large Aegean Greek island off the southwest coast of Anatolia, settled by Dorian Greeks who established three city-states, lalysos, Lindos and Kameiros. They produced local pottery, which was traded widely in the Greek world. In 408/7 BC they were united into one state, with its capital at Rhod...

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Rhodes

Jerusalem

Situated in the ancient Judaean region of ISRAEL, Jerusalem dates back to the Early Bronze Age (c.3000 BC), when it was probably founded by an AMORITE tribe, the Jebusites, who called it the ‘Foundation of Salem’ (Salem being an Amorite deity). It was captured by the ISRAELITES under David in c.1...

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Jerusalem

Leptis Magna

Leptis Magna, Roma döneminde Kuzey Afrika'daki önemli bir kenttir. İlk yerleşim gördüğü tarih İ.Ö. 6. yüzyılda Fenikeliler tarafından kurulmuştur, daha sonra Kartacalılar ve Numidianlar tarafından yerleşim yeri olarak kullanılmıştır. İmparator Agustus döneminde kent Romalılaştırılmış, Trainus dön...

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Leptis Magna

A principal city of Roman North Africa (now Libya), the largest city of the ancient Tripolis. The original settlement was by the Phoenicians during the 6th century BC, then Carthaginian and Numidian, later becoming Romanized under emperor Augustus and colonized by emperor Trajan; it was the birth...

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Leptis Magna

Inamgaon

Large Chalcolithic site on the Bhima river in Maharashtra, India, consisting of five mounds spanning the Malwa and early and late Jorwe periods (c.1800–700 BC). Excavations have uncovered over 130 structures and 260 burials, as well as evidence for pottery kilns and substantial constructions rela...

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Inamgaon

Antiochia ad Cragum

Antiocheia ad Cragum, Antalya ili Gazipaşa ilçesi yakınlarında antik kent. Alanya'nın 60 kilometre doğusundadır. Antik çağda Dağlık Kilikya olarak bilinen bölgede ve Akdenizkıyısındadır. Kent adını, M.S. 1. yüzyılda yaşamış Kommagene Kralı IV. Antiochus'dan almaktadır. Kentin kalıntıları üç yüks...

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Antiochia ad Cragum

Antiochia ad Cragum (Greek: Αντιόχεια του Κράγου) also known as Antiochetta or Latin: Antiochia Parva (meaning "Little Antiochia") is an ancient Hellenistic city on Mount Cragus overlooking the Mediterranean coast, in the region of Cilicia, in Anatolia. In modern-day Turkey the site is encompasse...

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Antiochia ad Cragum

Baalbek

Lübnan'da bulunan önemli bir yerleşim ve tarım merkezi. Roma döneminin görkemli kalıntılarına ev sahipliği yapmaktadır. Baalbek kentinin ilk önemli bilgisini Antik Yunan devletinin Suriyeyi fethetmesinden (MÖ. 332) sonra ediniyoruz. Büyük İskender tarafından fethedilen bu kent, ismi değiştirilere...

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Baalbek

Important town and agricultural center in Lebanon and the site of the magnificent ruins of a Roman town. First knowledge of Baalbek was the time of the Greek conquest of Syria (332 BC). After the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC), the region fell to the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, under which...

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Baalbek

Colophon

Greek ancient city in Ionia - one of the Ionian dodecapolis. According to tradition founded as a colony by two sons of Codrus, King of Athens. Colophon was the strongest of the Ionian cities and famous both for its cavalry and for the inhabitants' luxurious lifestyle. In the first half of the VII...

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Colophon

Kolophon İonia'nın en eski ve en önemli kentlerinden biri idi. Kent, MÖ 7. yüzyılın sonunda ya da 6. yüzyılın başında yaşadığı bilinen İzmirli ya da bu kentin bir yerlisi olan, ozan Mimnermos'un bir şiirinde "Asya'nın büyüleyici kıyısı" üzerinde bulunan "sevimli Kolophon" olarak geçmektedir. Mimn...

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Colophon

The city of Colophon was founded by Ionian settlers in the 9th or the 8th century BC, on a very fertile plain watered by numerous streams flowing from five hills that surrounded it. Another advantage of its position was the location on the shortest route connecting Smyrna with Ephesus and Notion....

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Colophon

Lebedos

İyonya Bölgesi’nin antik kentlerinden olan Lebedos, Seferihisar ile Selçuk arasındaki kıyıda, Ürkmez köyünün yanı başındaki küçük bir tepenin üzerine kurulmuştur. Kolophon’un (Değirmendere) kuzeyinde, Kral Kodros’un oğullarından Andropompos tarafından kurulan Lebedos, İyon göçü sırasında Hellenle...

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Lebedos

Lebedos was, most probably, founded by the Carians, and later colonized by the Greeks who arrived there under the guidance of Andræmon, a son of Codrus. The city was inhabited from the beginning of the first millennium BC to the Byzantine times. I was never very rich or significant, because of th...

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Lebedos

Alexandria

İ.Ö. 332-331 tarihleri arasında Büyük İskender tarafından kurulan İskende­riye kenti, Eskiçağ şehircilik anlayışı­nın en modern örneği olarak gösteri­lir. Akdeniz’deki bu küçük liman ken­tinin bulunduğu yer, Büyük İskender’i çok etkilemişti; çünkü Pharos adası­nın yakınındaki doğal yapı, tekneler...

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Alexandria

The Greek city founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC, capital of the Ptolemy dynasty, located on a narrow strip of land in the Nile Delta of Egypt. Alexandria was placed on the earlier Egyptian settlement of Raqote of which pre-Ptolemaic seawalls are the only archaeological traces. The great c...

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Alexandria