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Moryllus

Ancient city · Greece

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
40.901, 22.808
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: ancient settlement of Macedonia

History

Moryllus or Moryllos was a town of ancient Macedonia, placed by Ptolemy in the otherwise obscure district of Paraxia, then assumed to be in the district of Anthemus, but now it is placed, thanks to an inscription, in the interior Mygdonia or Crestonia, near modern Ano Apostoli, Kilkis prefecture. The only attested citizens of Moryllus are two Delphic theorodokoi, Hadymos and Seleukos sons of Argaios.

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