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Sestos
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Sestos

Vanished settlement · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
40.217, 26.383
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: ancient city in Thrace

History

Sestos was an ancient city in Thrace. It was located at the Thracian Chersonese peninsula on the European coast of the Hellespont, opposite the ancient city of Abydos, and near the town of Eceabat in Turkey.

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