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Plarasa

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
37.624, 28.634
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: inland town of ancient Caria

History

Plarasa or Plarassa was an inland town of ancient Caria, inhabited during Roman times. At some point it, along with Tauropolis, became part of the territory of the Antiochia ad Maeandrum, after which an aqueduct which was built by Marcus Ulpius Carminius Claudianus in the 2nd century to supply the combined community.

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