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Cyaneae
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Cyaneae

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
36.247, 29.816
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Why it was abandoned

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

History

Cyaneae, also spelled Kyaneai or Cyanae, was a town of ancient Lycia, or perhaps three towns known collectively by the name. Leake observes that in some copies of Pliny it is written Cyane; in Hierocles and the Notitiae Episcopatuum it is Cyaneae.

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