Idalion
Ancient city · Cyprus
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1200 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 35.016, 33.423
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
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History
Idalion or Idalium was an ancient city-kingdom of Cyprus, in modern Dali, Nicosia District. The city was founded on the copper trade in the 3rd millennium BC. Its name does not appear on the Sargon Stele of 707 BC, but does appear on the later Prism of Esarhaddon and in similar spellings in Ashurbanipal's annal.