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Manisa (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 38 36 43 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 38.6120 decimal degrees |
Long: 027 25 35 E degrees minutes |
Long: 27.4265 decimal degrees |
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Note: Captured by Persian Cyrus II the Great 6th century BCE; site of Roman defeat of Seleucid Antiochus III the Great in 190 BCE; seized by Ottoman sultan Bayezid I in 1390; controlled by Karaosmanoğlu governors early 18th century; has many Ottoman structures. |
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Manisa (preferred,C,V)
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............ | renamed by Turkmen tribal chief Saruhan, 1313 |
Manissa (C,V)
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Magnēsıa (C,V)
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Magnisiyah (C,V)
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Mahnisa (C,V)
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Sarouhan (C,V)
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Saruhan (C,V)
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Maghnisa On Inekbazar (H,O)
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Magnesia ad Sipylum (H,V)
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............ | ancient |
Magnesia Am Siplos (H,V)
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Magnesia Hermi (H,V)
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Magnesia On Hermos (H,O)
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Magnesiopolis (H,V)
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Magnēsia (H,V)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Manisa (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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probably first inhabited by Magnetes of Thessaly, 12th cen. BC |
city (C) |
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provincial capital (C) |
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commercial center (C) |
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regional capital (C) |
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