Candara
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.924, 33.651
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Paphlagonia in modern-day Turkey
History
Candara or Kandara was a town of ancient Paphlagonia, inhabited from Achaemenid through Roman times. Stephanus of Byzantium writes that it was "in Paphlagonia, three schoeni from Gangra, and a village Thariba" and that a temple of Hera Candarene was there.