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  1. Asia Minor

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    Anatolia
    History of Turkey
    Ancient Greek Colonies

  2. Bithynia

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    Bithynia was an ancient region in northwestern Anatolia, situated between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. It was inhabited primarily by the Bithynians, a Thracian people who migrated into the area, and later became a significant Hellenistic kingdom before its absorption into the Roman Republic. Its strategic location near the Hellespont made it a perennial subject of contention among major regional powers.
    Geography and Environment

  3. Caria

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    Caria was an ancient region in western Anatolia, primarily situated along the southern Aegean coast. Geographically, it was bounded to the north by Lydia and Phrygia, and to the east by Lycia, though its precise limits fluctuated significantly across historical periods, particularly concerning its inland extent where it frequently merged with the vague eastern territories referred to by Hellenic geographers as "barbarian lands." The inhabitants, the Carians, spoke a language generally considered non-Indo-European, though it retained a…

  4. Croesus

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    Croesus (Lydian: Kruša; c. 600 – c. 546 BCE) was the last king of Lydia, reigning from approximately 560 to 546 BCE. He is renowned in classical historiography, particularly through the writings of Herodotus, for his immense wealth, his interactions with Greek oracles, and his eventual conquest by the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great. Croesus's reign marked the zenith of Lydian power, controlling much of western Anatolia.
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  5. Ephesus

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    The persistent geological issue of the Cayster River gradually shifting its course and depositing sediment into the formerly deep harbor proved fatal to Ephesus's prosperity. Although Roman emperors attempted numerous dredging projects, the city's maritime access progressively diminished throughout the Byzantine era.
    By the medieval period, the site had shrunk to a small settlement surrounding a basilica dedicated to St. John. The final abandonment occurred as the silting rendered even local access precarious, leading to the site's eve…