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Laertes

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
36.511, 32.166
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: Античный город на территории Турции

History

Laertes was a town of ancient Cilicia. Some have supposed that the philosopher Diogenes Laërtius was from this town. Strabo called it a stronghold.

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