Saurania
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.698, 37.600
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Pontus, in modern-day Turkey
History
Saurania, or Sauronisena, or Saunaria (Σαυναρία), was a town of ancient Pontus, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times. It was in the later province of Pontus Polemoniacus, and mentioned by Ptolemy.