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Aurokra

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
—
Coordinates
38.532, 31.199
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Phrygia in modern-day Turkey

History

Aurokra or Aurokla or Aurocla or Aulokra was a town of ancient Phrygia, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times. It became a bishopric; no longer a residential bishopric, it remains, under the name Aurocla, a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.

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