Antigonia
Città antica · Turchia
- Abbandonato
- sconosciuto
- Fondato
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- Popolazione
- —
- Coordinate
- 36.263, 36.230
Perché è stato abbandonato
🏛️ Rovine antiche
Rilevato automaticamente dal testo: ancient Greek city in the Seleucid Empire, now modern Turkey
Storia
Antigoneia was an ancient city founded in 307 BC by Antigonus I Monophthalmus, one of the successors of Alexander the Great, in the northern Levant. Established as a joint capital of Antigonus's empire alongside Celaenae in Anatolia, Antigoneia occupied a strategically important position on the Orontes River and on trade routes. A large settlement with a perimeter of seventy stades—7.5 miles (12 km)—and a population well over 20,000, Antigoneia was the site of several important events of Antigonus's reign.
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