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    west of the modern village Tekin in the Germencik district of Aydın Province, Turkey. Magnesia lay within Ionia, but because it had been settled by Aeolians...
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    Aydın Archaeological Museum (Turkish: Aydın Arkeoloji Müzesi) is in Aydın, western Turkey. Established in 1959, it contains numerous statues, tombs, columns...
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    Aydın Province (Turkish: Aydın ili) is a province and metropolitan municipality of southwestern Turkey, located in the Aegean Region. Its area is 8,116 km2...
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    Manisa (redirect from Magnesia, Turkey)
    Manisa (Turkish pronunciation: [maˈnisa]), historically known as Magnesia, is a city in Turkey's Aegean Region and the administrative seat of Manisa Province...
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  • Ortaklar (redirect from Ortaklar, Aydın)
    kilometres (6.2 mi) to Germencik and 28 kilometres (17 mi) to Aydın. The ruins of ancient Magnesia on the Maeander are 4 km south of Ortaklar. It is a typical...
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    Persian king Artaxerxes I (reigned 465–424 BC). He was made governor of Magnesia, and lived there for the rest of his life. Themistocles died in 459 BC...
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    Germencik (category Populated places in Aydın Province)
    town of Kuşadası, on the Aydın-İzmir highway 25 km (16 mi) from the city of Aydın. It is also the junction of the İzmir-Aydın-Afyonkarahisar and Ortaklar-Söke...
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    prefecture of the city of Magnesia (modern Manisa), the only territory of Anatolia that remained under the control of the Byzantines. Magnesia had solid walls and...
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  • Smyrna. Evliya Çelebi mentions in his writings that it was danced in Magnesia and in Aydın at local feasts. Originally a dance for two armed people facing...
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    Charalampos (Ancient Greek: Ἅγιος Χαράλαμπος) was an early Christian priest in Magnesia on the Maeander, a city in Asia Minor, in the diocese of the same name...
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