Gordos
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.877, 28.314
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Lydia in modern-day Turkey
History
Gordus or Gordos, also known as Julia Gordus or Iulia Gordos, and possibly also known as Porotta, was an ancient Greek city located in eastern Lydia. It was a strategically important town founded by the Seleucid Kings. The Julio-Claudian emperors of the Roman Empire renamed the city Julia Gordos in the 1st century and the city minted its own coins.