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Chelae

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
41.078, 29.044
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Why it was abandoned

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

History

Chelae or Chelai, also called Philemporos, was a town of ancient Thrace on the Bosphorus, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times.

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