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Toriaeum

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
36.951, 29.919
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Why it was abandoned

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

History

Toriaeum or Toriaion was a town of ancient Lycia, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times. During Roman times it was a Roman colony; during Byzantine times it seems to have appeared in the Synecdemus as Komistaraos.

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