Dascylium
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.132, 28.052
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Mysia in modern-day Turkey
History
Dascylium, Dascyleium, or Daskyleion, also known as Dascylus, was a town in Anatolia some 30 kilometres (19 mi) inland from the coast of the Propontis, at modern Ergili, Turkey. Its site was rediscovered in 1952 and has since been excavated.