Aphrodisias
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.539, 26.835
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Thrace in modern-day Turkey
History
Aphrodisias was a town of ancient Thrace on the Thracian Chersonese, inhabited during Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine times. During Roman times, it received a Roman colony under the name of Colonia Flaviopolis.