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Icosium (Algiers)

Icosium (Greek: Ἰκόσιον): Phoenician colony, Roman city, modern Algiers.Icosium Mosaic from Roman Icosium Founded by the Phoenicians; the site is more or…

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Iol Caesarea

Iol Caesarea: Phoenician colony, Numidian city, capital of the Roman province Mauretania Caesariensis, modern Cherchell.Iol Caesarea Juba II c.400 BCE: founded as…

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Issus (Kinet Höyük)

Issus (Hittite Izziya, Greek ᾽Ἱσσός): town in southern Turkey, best known for the famous battle in November 333 BCE, in which Alexander the Great defeated Darius III Codomannus. The town has been identified with the ruins near modern Kinet Höyük. …

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Isthmia

Isthmia: town on the Corinthian isthmus in Greece, site of the Isthmian Games (Greek Ἰσθμιάδες).History Remains of the temple of Poseidon Sanctuary…

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Kaunos

Kaunos (Carian Kbid, Greek Καῦνος, Latin Caunus): port in Caria at the mouth of the river Kalbis, modern Dalyan. Kaunos, rock…

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Kerkouane

Kerkouane: Punic port, destroyed by the Romans.Kerkouane Kerkouane, Model of the ancient town Phoenician (Punic) town, founded c.650 BCE on the eastern…

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Kition

Kition (Greek Κίτιον, Latin Citium): important port and city-state in southern Cyprus (modern Larnaca).Bronze Age Mycenaean "phi" figurine Exavations in the northern…

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Kourion

Kourion (Greek Κούριον): ancient city on the southern coast of Cyprus. The rocky coast Situated on a high, rocky ridge along the…

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Late Roman Capital

Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις) or Byzantium (Βυζάντιον): Greek city on the Bosphorus, capital of the Byzantine Empire, modern İstanbul. Constantius II Constantine the Great…

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Lepcis Magna: Punic City

Lepcis Magna: Phoenician colony, later part of the Carthaginian empire, the kingdom of Massinissa, and the Roman empire. Its most famous son was the emperor Septimius Severus (r.193-211).Origin …

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