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Thymbrara

Ancient city · Lydia

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
38.517, 28.248
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: town in ancient Lydia near the Pactolus river

History

Thymbrara was a town of ancient Lydia, near Sardis, not far from the small river Pactolus. The contingents of the Persian army furnished by the inhabitants of Asia Minor used to assemble at Thymbara. It may be the same place as Thybarna cited by Diodorus Siculus.

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