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Celaenae

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
38.072, 30.166
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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

Celaenae or Kelainai was an ancient city of Phrygia and capital of the Persian satrapy of Greater Phrygia, near the source of the Maeander River in what is today west central Turkey, and was situated on the great trade route to the East.

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