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Bithynia
... Since the wooded mountains of the north remained outside the dominion of Alexander the Great and his successors, Bithynia under the Seleucids was able to develop more or less independently and via the ...
Byzantine Empire
... (Turkish:Bogazici). The Greeks colonized the area first, in the mid-600's BC, even before Alexander the Great brought his troops into Anatolia (Turkish:Anadolu) (334 BC). Greek culture continued its influence ...
Termessos
... few places which Alexander the Great couldn't capture it despite his siege in 333 B.C. because it was an eagle's nest built in a valley hidden between the mountains. Even today, in order to visit the city ...
Thrace
... country was in the hands of Lysimachus, a general of Alexander the Great. It fell apart once more after Lysimachus' death (281 B.C.), and it was conquered via the Romans late in the 1st century B.C. Emperor ...
Troy
... About 700 BC Greek settlers began to occupy the Troas region, Troy was resettled and named as Ilion. Alexander the Great ruled the area around the 4th century BC. After Romans captured Troy in 85 BC, it ...
Zeugma
... the name, the Greek work meaning "a yoke", or stands for a term like "bridge head" or "passage location". Pliny (historian) says that Alexander the Great was the first to ...
Roman Empire in Asia Minor
... of Asia Minor because it formed a natural land-bridge between East and West in terms of trade routes, culture, agriculture and military. After Alexander the Great and many other small Anatolian kingdoms, ...
Samsun
... the empire of Alexander the Great that broke up soon after his death in the 4th century BC. At its zenith the Kingdom of Pontus controlled the north as well as parts of central Anatolia (Turkish:Anadolu) ...
Sardis
... 334 B.C., when it was captured via Alexander the Great. The city continued to flourish during Hellenistic and Roman times, when ambitious construction projects were initiated, including the temple of Artemis ...
Selge
... came here with the colonisation of Rhodes as well. Selge was an old enemy of Termessos and they allied with Alexander the Great who besieged that city in the 4th century B.C. Selge was in continuous ...
Side
... century BC and than came under the rule of the Lydians, Persian, Alexander The Great's, Seleucid Empires, Pergamon Kingdom, Romans, Byzantines, and Turks respectively. Side minted its own coins during ...
Historical and cultural sites
... mail or secret treaties galloped. Perhaps it is the same road traveled via St. Paul and his disciples or via Sufis spreading divine knowledge. Perhaps Alexander the Great or King Croesus fought against ...
Pamphylia
... have been. Ruled in turn via the Lydians, Persians, Alexander the Great, Antigonos I, one of his successors, the Seleucids and Egypt's Ptolimites, it enjoyed a brief period of independence until the west ...
Patara
... via the Mediterranean sea. The painted ceramics found in the acropolis prove that the city existed in the 5th century BC. Patara opened its doors to Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC, thereby ...
Pergamum
... Lysimachos, 1 of the generals of Alexander the Great and who had become the sovereign of Anatolia (Turkish:Anadolu) after 301 B.C., delivered the war expenditures, at the amount of 9000 talents (1 talent ...
Phaselis
... with the local peoples, after their initial acceptance of the colonists. Phaselis fell into Persians hands after they took Anatolia (Turkish:Anadolu), and later on to the hands of Alexander the Great ...
Pontus
... of Alexander the Great, and via 281 B.C. the ruler (Mithradates II) called himself king. A century later Pharnaces I was able to annex Sinop, and Mithradates V (d. 120 B.C.) gained Phrygia by a profitable ...
Priene
... 37.20 meters. A few columns of the temple, which is a classical example of Ionian architecture, have been erected. Alexander the Great had the eastern half of the temple completed. The altar in the front ...
Letoon
... temples of Leto, Artemis and Apollo. Some of the inscriptions discovered at the site were written in 3 languages (Lycian, Greek and Aramaic) and indicate that also Alexander the Great visited the city ...
Lydia
... captured Sardis about 546 BC and incorporated Lydia into the Persian Empire. After the defeat of Persia via Alexander III, king of Macedonia, Lydia was brought under Greek - Macedonian control. Soon after ...