Moukaporis
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.139, 29.082
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Bithynia, in modern-day Turkey
History
Moukaporis was a coastal town of ancient Bithynia located on the Bosphorus. Moukaporis, took its ancient name from a king or a noble figure of Bithynia. Dionysios described this harbor in his work, as "quite beautiful" and there is a phrase that reads "after Daphne Mainomene comes Moukaporis."