Old Smyrna
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old-smyrna-264-10942429
title:
Old Smyrna
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Old Smyrna is an ancient Greek exonym first known to have been applied by Strabo (14.1.37) to a city of the endonym Σμύρνα, Smyrna. It had existed at the same location on the Bay of Smyrna, Turkey, since prehistoric times. Old Smyrna experienced what was termed dioecism (dioikismos), the removal of a city from its subordinate constituents, the reverse of synoecism, at the hands of its Lydian conquerors under their king, Alyattes, in 585 BC, in the Archaic Period of Greece. It is mentioned by Her
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Archaeological site in Turkey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Smyrna
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date modified:
2024-04-21T10:57:12Z
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