Turkey

There are 2131 items in Turkey:

"Laodice"

"Laodice" (mid-third century BCE): Seleucid princess, wife of king Mithridates II of Pontus.Relatives Father: Antiochus II Theos Mother: Laodice I Husband: Mithridates II of Pontus Children: Laodice III; another Laodice; Mithridates III of Pontus (?) Main deeds In 245, Laodice I and her son Seleucus II…

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ABC 6 (Neriglissar Chronicle)

The Chronicle Concerning Year Three of Neriglissar (ABC 6) is one of the historiographical texts from ancient Babylonia. It deals with king Neriglissar (= Nergal-šarra-usur) and his war in the far west in 557/556 BCE. …

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Abydus (Çanakkale)

Abydus: city on the southeastern shore of the Hellespont, modern Çanakkale.Abydus, already mentioned by Homer in the Iliad, note[Homer, Iliad 2.836.] was an important Greek city on a promontory on the southeastern bank of the Hellespont. That it was easy to…

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