Hermocapelia
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.922, 27.615
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Lydia in modern-day Turkey
History
Hermocapelia or Hermokapeleia, also possibly known as Thyessos, was a town of ancient Lydia. It was inhabited from Classical through Byzantine times. It stood on the Hermus River, "to the west of Apollonis in its own little plain almost completely surrounded by mountains."