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Cybeleia

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
38.611, 26.358
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Why it was abandoned

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

History

Cybeleia or Kybeleia or Cybellia was a city of ancient Ionia. Strabo, after saying that the mountain Mimas is between Erythrae and the Hypocremnus, adds, "then a village Cybellia, and the promontory Melaena." This is all that is known.

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