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Peucelaotis (Charsadda)
Peucelaotis (Old Indian: Puskalāvatī): ancient town in the valley of the river Charsadda, modern Charsadda, not far from Peshawar. Coin from…Pharsalus
Pharsalus: Greek town in Thessaly, well-known for the famous battle in 48 BCE in which the Roman general Julius Caesar defeated his opponent Pompey the Great. …Philadelphia (Amman)
Philadelphia: orginal capital of the Ammonites, city in the Ptolemaic Empire, one of the towns in the Decapolis, modern Amman (Jordan).Prehistory and Iron Age …Philippi
Philippi: town in eastern Macedonia, founded by king Philip II, famous for the double battle in 42 BCE that marked the end of the Roman republic.Beginnings …Philippopolis (Plovdiv)
Philippopolis (Greek Φιλιππούπολις): city in Thrace, founded by king Philip of Macedonia; important town in the Roman province of Thrace; border town in the Byzantine Empire.Origins …Phocaea
Phocaea (Φώκαια): Greek city in Ionia, modern Foça in western Turkey. Death mask Phocaea was the most northerly of the Ionian settlements…Piraeus
Piraeus (Greek: Πειραιεύς): main port of ancient Athens.Piraeus' Origins Piraeus and Athens Originally a rocky island, losely connected to the mainland; the…Polis
Polis (Greek πόλις): Greek word for city state. Personification of a city state: the goddess of Berytus wears a mural crown. In…Pompeii
Pompeii: Italian town at the foot of the Vesuvius, buried by the volcano's eruption in 79 CE.History Model of the ruin…
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Priene
Priene: Greek city in western Turkey. Priene,seen from the west The city of Priene was some five centuries old already, and had…