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Aziris (deserted settlement) |
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| Lat: 32 39 54 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 32.6659 decimal degrees |
| Long: 022 55 30 E degrees minutes |
Long: 22.9256 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located in modern Libya, in ancient Cyrene. Known only from surface finds at Wadi el Chalig. Was apparently one of the earliest colonies founded by Greeks here, ca. 7th century BCE. Herodotus describes how the inhabitants of Thera, beset by famine, were advised by the Delphic Oracle to send a colony to Libya under the leadership of one Battus (Herodotus 4.150-151). First they settled the island of Plataea, which failed after 2 years; they then moved to the coastal site of Aziris for 6 years. Then, at the invitation of the indigenous Libyans, they resettled at Cyrene (Herodotus 4.168). |
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Darnah (national district) (P) |
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Aziris (deserted settlement) (P) |
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Cyrene (deserted settlement) (P) |
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Aziris (deserted settlement) (P) |
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| deserted settlement (preferred, C) |
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| archaeological site (C) |
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| inhabited place (H) |
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| colony (H) |
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| Ancient Greek (H) |
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Related geographic places: |
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Wādī al Khalīj .......... (wadi) |
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(World, Africa, Lībiyā, Darnah) [7593890] |
| possibly identified as .... |
Aüza .......... (lost settlement) |
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(World, Africa, Lībiyā) [7059228] |
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proposed by John Boardman of the University of Oxford in 2010 |
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