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Sangarus

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
40.639, 29.063
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Bithynia in modern-day Turkey

History

Sangarus or Sangaros was a town of ancient Bithynia near the shore of the Propontis. In the 4th century, an early Christian sect, the Novatianists, held a synod here. Yitzhak ha-Sangari may have been a native.

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