Photo: “The Agora, reconstructed mainly during Hadrian’s time, its initial building must have started in the 4th century BC, Iassos, Caria, Turkey (20806588152)”, Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized for the web.
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TÜRKIYE · LATE 3RD MILLENNIUM BC
Ancient City of Iasos
Ἴασος
Iasos occupies a peninsula with water on three sides, at Kıyıkışlacık, 28 km from Milas. Legend credits settlers from Argos with its founding, but excavation has dated its earliest settlement to the close of the 3rd millennium BC. Strabo told a story about how much its people loved fish. An Italian mission has been digging here since 1960; the remains include the Roman agora, the bouleuterion and the sanctuaries of Zeus Megistos, Demeter and Kore, and Artemis Astias.
- Original name
- Ἴασος
- Country
- Türkiye
- Period
- Late 3rd millennium BC
- Civilisation
- Greek
- Location
- 37.2796° N, 27.5849° E Open in OpenStreetMap Open in Apple Maps
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