Tripolis
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.039, 28.951
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city at the crossroads of Caria, Lydia, and Phrygia in modern-day Turkey
History
Tripolis on the Meander – also Neapolis, Apollonia, and Antoniopolis – was an ancient city on the borders of Phrygia, Caria and Lydia, on the northern bank of the upper course of the Maeander, and on the road leading from Sardes by Philadelphia to Laodicea ad Lycum. It was situated 20 km to the northwest of Hierapolis.