Pteleum
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.483, 26.417
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Ionia in modern-day Turkey
History
Pteleum or Pteleon was a fortress town in the territory of Erythrae, in Ionia. Pliny the Elder mentions Pteleon, Helos, and Dorium as near Erythrae, but those places are confused by Pliny with the Triphylian towns in Homer's Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.