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The league of Aegean states

VYZANTION (Ancient city) TURKEY
After Spartian power in the Aegean was destroyed by Conon in 394 B.C., Iasos was rebuilt, possibly with the aid of Knidos, and it joined a league of Aegean states that included Ephesos, Rhodes, Samos, and Byzantium.

• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vor?lang=en&f...

Submission to the Lydians in 560 B.C.

ASSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY

Submission to the Persians, 548 B.C.

Member of the Delian League, 479 B.C.

The Battle of Canakkale, I World War

CANAKKALE (Town) TURKEY

The Battle of Hadrianopolis, 9.8.378 CE

EDIRNE (Town) TURKEY
The Goths Crush Romans

• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/378adrianop...
• http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa0...

The Byzantine Empire

VYZANTION (Ancient city) TURKEY

• http://www.hellenism.net/eng/byzantium.htm

By Arsaces, 411 B.C.

ADRAMYTION (Ancient city) TURKEY
(Thuc. 8,108,4)

Lyssimachos

ASTAKOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The city destroyed from Lyssimachos

By the Venetian Admiral Nicolo Kanale

ENOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
1568

By Paeonians

PERINTHOS (Ancient city) TURKEY

Perseus: Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley, 1920)
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=...

Istanbul

ISTANBUL (Town) TURKEY

• http://www.boun.edu.tr/istanbul/history.html

Gargara was founded by Assus

GARGARA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Hellanicus adds that Gargara was founded by Assus.

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Per...

Nicaea

NIKEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Nicaea was first founded by Antigonus the son of Philip, who called it Antigonia, and then by Lysimachus, who changed its name to that of Nicaea his wife (Strab. 12,4,7).

Perseus: Strabo, Geography
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=...

Parium

PARION (Ancient city) TURKEY
Thasos was founded by the Parians, as also Parium, a city on the Propontis (Strab. 10.5.7).

Perseus: Strabo, Geography
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=...

Apama

APAMIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
The city was named after Apama, wife of Prusias.

Vyzas

ISTANBUL (Town) TURKEY
Came from Megara, founder of Byzantium in 658 B.C.

The Treaty of Adrianopole, 1829

EDIRNE (Town) TURKEY
The Peace Treaty signed in Adrianopole in 1829, putting an end to the Russian-Turkish conflict of 1828-1829, considerably diminished the Ottoman suzerainty

Edirne, The Second Capital of Ottoman Empire

• http://www.edal.k12.tr/edirne.htm

History of the city of Kios

GEMLIK (Town) TURKEY

• http://pieria.forthnet.gr/pages/kios/history2.htm

Bithynians

VITHYNIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
A Thracian tribe, that conquered the country, which was named after it.

The naval batlle at Abydos, 411 B.C.

AVYDOS (Ancient city) MARMARA

GEMLIK (Town) TURKEY

• http://www.neakios.gr/istan.htm

Ainos founded by Alopeconnesians

ALOPEKONISSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Near the outlet of the Hebrus, which has two mouths, lies the city Aenus, on the Melas Gulf; it was founded by Mitylenaeans and Cumaeans, though in still earlier times by Alopeconnesians.

• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vor?lang=en&f...

Milesians colonized Arisba

ARISVI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Anaximenes of Lampsacus says that the Milesians colonized the islands Icaros and Leros; and, near the Hellespont, Limnae in the Chersonesus, as also Abydus and Arisba and Paesus in Asia.
(Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 14.1.6

Perseus: Strabo, Geography
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Milesians colonized Artace

ARTAKI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Anaximenes of Lampsacus says that the Milesians colonized the islands Icaros and Leros; and, near the Hellespont, Limnae in the Chersonesus, as also Abydus and Arisba and Paesus in Asia; and Artace and Cyzicus in the island of the Cyziceni.
(Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 14.1.6)

Perseus: Strabo, Geography
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=...

Milesians colonized Abydus

AVYDOS (Ancient city) MARMARA
Anaximenes of Lampsacus says that the Milesians colonized the islands Icaros and Leros; and, near the Hellespont, Limnae in the Chersonesus, as also Abydus and Arisba and Paesus in Asia.
(Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 14.1.6

Perseus: Strabo, Geography
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=...

ENOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Near the outlet of the Hebrus, which has two mouths, lies the city Aenus, on the Melas Gulf; it was founded by Mitylenaeans and Cumaeans, though in still earlier times by Alopeconnesians.

• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vor?lang=en&f...

Milesians colonized Cizicus

KYZIKOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Anaximenes of Lampsacus says that the Milesians colonized the islands Icaros and Leros; and, near the Hellespont, Limnae in the Chersonesus, as also Abydus and Arisba and Paesus in Asia; and Artace and Cyzicus in the island of the Cyziceni.
(Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 14.1.6)

Perseus: Strabo, Geography
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=...

Milesians colonized Limnae

LIMNES (Ancient city) TURKEY
Anaximenes of Lampsacus says that the Milesians colonized the islands Icaros and Leros; and, near the Hellespont, Limnae in the Chersonesus.
(Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 14.1.6

Perseus: Strabo, Geography
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=...

Milesians colonized Paesus

PESSOS (Homeric city) MYSIA
Anaximenes of Lampsacus says that the Milesians colonized .. Paesus in Asia

Perseus: Strabo, Geography
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Milesians colonized Scepsis

SKIPSIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Anaximenes of Lampsacus says that the Milesians colonized .. Scepsis

Perseus: Strabo, Geography
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Megas Alexandros paid honours to Achilleus

ASSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
In Asso, Megas lexandros paid honours to his lovely hero Achilleus.

Submission to Rome, 133 B.C.

Aeolian from Methymna of Lesvos island

The acropolis of Assos was occupied in the Bronze Age, but first began to expand in the 8th and 7th centuries B.C. when Aeolian colonists from Methymna on Lesbos replaced the Carian inhabitants.

Assos, Methymna: Perseus Lookup Tool, text search
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vor?lang=en&f...

EDIRNE (Town) TURKEY
Turkish army crossed to Europe and captured Adrianopole, in 1356