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<< Our Photo Pages >> Miletus - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey

Submitted by AlexHunger on Monday, 26 March 2007  Page Views: 6273

Multi-periodSite Name: Miletus Alternative Name: Miletos, Millawanda
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 0.49 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Aydin  Nearest Village: Akköy
Latitude: 37.530580N  Longitude: 27.275790E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 4 Access: 4.5

Miletus
Miletus submitted by davidmorgan : The huge theatre. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Aydin Province, Turkey

The town started on the central höyük where the theatre and Turkish fortress now stand, on a peninsula which originally had four harbours, though most are now silted up, as Millawanda, part of the Arzawa vassal state of the Hittites in about the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE. Around 1400 BCE Mycenaeans grabbed this trading foothold between Ephesus and Dydima.

After the dark ages, following the Sea People incursions, it became a Greek city about 1000 BCE and became a major economic power and a coloniser of the Aegean and Black Sea. It was built on a grid like plan as devised by Hypodamus and the ancient philosophers Thales, Ananximander and Anaximenus lived here.

The Archaic Greek city was destroyed by the Persians around the 5th century BCE following an uprising. The rebuilt city boasted a theatre, a stadium, a Temple of Athena, a Temple of Serapis, a Temple of Asklepius and baths.
On the south west of the town, there is a mound, Kalabak Tepe, dating to the earliest Archaic time.
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Miletus
Miletus submitted by davidmorgan : Under the theatre. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Miletus submitted by AlexHunger : Miletus Baths of Faustina built by Hadrian (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Miletus submitted by durhamnature : The frieze. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Miletus
Miletus submitted by durhamnature : Miletus. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Miletus submitted by DrewParsons : The magnificent theatre at Miletus (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Miletus submitted by AlexHunger : Miletus Baths of Faustina built by Marcus Aurelius

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Miletus submitted by AlexHunger : Miletus stoa

Miletus
Miletus submitted by davidmorgan : The stoa.

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Miletus submitted by AlexHunger : Miletus Baths of Faustina from a distance

Miletus
Miletus submitted by durhamnature : Plan of a building at Miletus, from "Handbook of Greek Archaeology" via archive.org Site in Turkey

Miletus
Miletus submitted by AlexHunger : The Miletus Tell (or Höyük) where the Arzawa vassals of the Hittites started the town of Millawanda by the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE. there is now a Turkish fortress and the theatre on it. Mycenaean Greeks grabbed the area around 1400 BCE.

Miletus
Miletus submitted by AlexHunger : Miletus Theatre Frieze - several Eros figures.

Miletus
Miletus submitted by AlexHunger : Miletus Stoa and Agora

Miletus
Miletus submitted by AlexHunger : Roman Miletus Market Gate Foundations. The monument now stands in the Berlin Pergamon Museum.

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