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ID: 5004383
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5004383
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Colophon (deserted settlement)  Colophon (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 06 32 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.1080  decimal degrees
Long: 027 08 30 E  degrees minutes   Long: 27.1410  decimal degrees

Note: An ancient city in Ionia, near the modern village of Değirmendere. Founded around the turn of the first millennium BC, was one of the first cities of Ionian League; was ancient maritime center in fertile agricultural region; famous in ancient times for horses & luxurious lifestyle; was birthplace of the poet Mimnermos (late 7th-early 6th cen. BCE).

Names:
Colophon (preferred,C,V)
Kolofon (C,V)
Κολοφών (C,V,Ancient Greek,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Turkey (nation)  ........  Turkey (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of İzmir (province)  ............  İzmir (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Colophon (deserted settlement)  ................  Colophon (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)  ............  an ancient town, probably founded by settlers from Pylos
archaeological site (C)
inhabited place (H)

Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....  Degirmendere .......... (inhabited place)
..............................  (World, Asia, Turkey, İzmir) [1086183]

Sources and Contributors:
Κολοφών..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Colophon..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
.................  Nagel's: Turkey (1984) 381-382
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Kolofon..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Nagel's: Turkey (1984) 381-382
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)

 

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