Canae

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title: Canae
text: Canae was, in classical antiquity, a city in ancient Aeolis, on the island of Argennusa in the Aegean Sea off the modern Dikili Peninsula on the coast of modern-day Turkey, near the modern village of Bademli. Today Argennusa has joined the mainland as the Kane Promontory off the Dikili Peninsula. Canae is famous as the site of the Battle of Arginusae in 406 B.C. Canae is mentioned by the ancient writers Herodotus, Strabo, Pliny, Livy, Ptolemy, Sappho, Thucydides, and Mela.
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description: Island of Argennusa
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canae
date created: 2015-11-14T20:03:29Z
date modified: 2024-09-07T21:49:04Z
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