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Cypsela

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
40.930, 26.395
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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

Cypsela or Kypsela, was an ancient Greek town on the river Hebrus in ancient Thrace, which was once an important place on the Via Egnatia. Antiochus besieged Cypsela and its citizens surrendered and became allies with Antiochus.

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