Antioch on the Maeander - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Antioch on the Maeander - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Antioch on the Maeander or Antiochia on the Maeander (; ), earlier Pythopolis, was a city of ancient Caria, in Anatolia. The city was situated between the Maeander and Orsinus rivers near their confluence. Though it was the site of a bridge over the Maeander, it had "little or no individual history". The scanty ruins are located on a hill (named, in Turkish, Yenişer) a few km southeast of Kuyucak, Aydın Province, Turkey, near the modern city of Başaran, or the village of Aliağaçiftliği.Richard Talbert [Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World], Princeton University Press, 2000, Map 65, H5 and Map-by-map Directory, p. 997] The city already existed when Antiochus I enlarged and renamed it. It was home to the sophist Diotrephes.William Hazlitt The Classical Gazetteer (1851) Read more on Wikipedia
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