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Embatum

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
38.254, 26.376
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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

Embatum or Embaton was a town of ancient Ionia, in the territory of Erythrae, mentioned by Theopompus in the eighth book of his Hellenica. It appears from Thucydides that it was on the coast.

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