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Priene in Turkey

Bütün Türkiye resimleri için buraya basınız veya Başka antik yerleri için buraya basınız
This gallery is in the SW Aegean and W Med topic
My page with very many Turkish cities OR Other antique cities

From the Enc. Britt.: ancient city of Ionia about 6 miles (10 km) north of the Menderes (Maeander) River and 10 miles (16 km) inland from the Aegean Sea, in southwestern Turkey. Its well-preserved remains are a major source of information about ancient Greek town planning. By the 8th century BC Priene was a member of the Ionian League, whose central shrine, the Panionion, lay within the city's territory. Priene was sacked by Ardys of Lydia in the 7th century BC but regained its prosperity in the 8th. Captured by the generals of the Persian king Cyrus (c. 540), the city took part in several revolts against the Persians (499–494). Priene originally lay along the Maeander River's mouth, but about 350 BC the citizens built a new city farther inland, on the present site. The new city's main temple, of Athena Polias, was dedicated by Alexander the Great in 334. The little city grew slowly over the next two centuries and led a quiet existence; it prospered under the Romans and Byzantines but gradually declined, and after passing into Turkish hands in the 13th century AD, it was abandoned.

In 2022 I am reorganizing many galleries, and though I improve some captions, others may be strange, as I used to describe walks, that now are cut up.
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City walls
City walls
Athene Temple in Priene
Athene Temple in Priene
Priene's theatre
Priene's theatre
Priene's Basilica
Priene's Basilica
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Priene October 2015 3167.jpg
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Prytaneion
Prytaneion
Upper gymnasion
Upper gymnasion
Sanctuary for the Egyptian Gods
Sanctuary for the Egyptian Gods
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Bouleuterion
Bouleuterion
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