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Temnos

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
38.672, 27.197
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: Greek polis in Ancient Aeolis

History

Temnos or Temnus was a small Greek polis (city-state) of ancient Aeolis, later incorporated in the Roman province of Asia, on the western coast of Anatolia. Its bishopric was a suffragan of Ephesus, the capital and metropolitan see of the province, and is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.

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