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	Priene, Miletus and Didyma - All About Turkey
		Miletus which is in the vicinity of Söke (nearby Kusadasi, in the Aegean region of Turkey), was on the seashore in the ancient times.
		The Miletus people who had founded about 90 colonies in the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, after 650 B.C., had resisted the Persian invasions in Anatolia, but they were defeated finally and the city was destroyed by the Persians in 5th c.
		Didyma (nearby Didim, in the Aegean region of Turkey) was a cult center for the city of Miletus.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /pmd.htm (1549 words)

	Miletus - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Greek settlers from Pylos under Neleus are said to have massacred all the men in the old city, and built for themselves a new one on the coast.
		Miletus occupied a very favourable situation at the mouth of the rich valley of the Maeander, and was the natural outlet for the trade of southern Phrygia (Hipponax, Fr.
		On the Persian conquest Miletus passed under a new master; it headed the Ionian revolt of 500 B.C., and was taken by storm after the battle of Lade (see IoNIA).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Miletus (993 words)

	Miletus, Turkey
		Miletus is thought to have been founded by settlers from Crete, where there was a city of the same name.
		Miletus reached its period of greatest prosperity at the end of the seventh century B.C. under a tyrant named Thrasybulos, a friend of the Corinthian Prince Periander.
		Miletus was the birthplace of several notable figures of the ancient world.
	www.planetware.com /yenikoy/miletus-tr-ay-m.htm (596 words)

	Miletus
		Miletus is a city in the Anatolia province of Turkey, near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and at the mouth of the Meander river.
		In ancient Greece, Miletus became famous for its science and philosophers, with Thales being the most important one.
		In the 6th century, Miletus had become a maritime empire, based on several colonies.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Miletus.html (181 words)

	Miletus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The lower half of the benches and the remnants of the scene building of the theater of Miletus, as it was on August 6, 2005.
		Miletus was one of the cities involved in the Lelantine War of the 8th century BCE.
		Miletus was an important center of philosophy and science, producing such men as Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miletus (895 words)

	Miletus
		Situated on the western coast of Caria near the Latmic Gulf at the mouth of the MÊander and the terminus of several of the great roads of Asia Minor, Miletus was for a long period one of the most prosperous cities of the ancient world.
		Miletus also had its period of literary glory with the philosophers Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes, the historians HecatÊus and Cadmus, the rhetorician schines, and the writer of tales, Aristides.
		Eusebius, Bishop of Miletus, assisted at the Council of NicÊa (325).
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/miletus.html (535 words)

	Miletus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Miletus' value proved to be its maritime location and its proximity to the famous sanctuary of Apollo at Didyma.
		The first phase of Miletus' Greek civilization, which had been established by the Ionians, was ended by its destruction by the Persians in 494 B.C. From 474 onward, again an independent Greek city, it was reconstructed according the the plans of Hippodamos.
		Miletus, however, could not compete with the developing maritime power of Athens and never achieved her previous prosperity.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /ancgreece/miletus.htm (281 words)

	Miletus, Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Miletus, near the coast of western Turkey, was one of the most important cities in the ancient Greek world, but eventually declined due to the silting up of its harbors.
		Miletus became the most important of the 12 cities of Ionia, and was one of the first cities in the ancient world to mint coins.
		Miletus was destroyed (along with Didyma) by the Persians in 499 BC, and Ephesus surpassed Miletus as the the most important city in the region.
	www.sacred-destinations.com /turkey/miletus.htm (2117 words)

	History, Metals, and Weight Standards (Ancient Coins of Miletos)
		According to tradition, Miletus was founded about 1400 BC as a Minoan trading colony which fell under the control of the Mycenean Greeks and then the indigenous Carians after Minoan civilization collapsed.
		The destruction of Miletus in 494 BC was one of the great catastrophes of early Greek civilization.
		Miletus herself had survived her defeats and brought victoriously to port an argosy richer than any that her ships had carried, a history safely landed from the histories that went before it, neolithic and bronze—landed in spite of the Persians, into the Future,—into the waiting arms of Athens and Augustine and Dante, Stratford and Rome.
	rjohara.net /coins/history (1865 words)

	Turkish Odyssey/Places of Interest/Aegean/Priene-Miletus-Didyma
		Miletus, an ancient city located near the present Akkoy at the mouth of the Buyuk Menderes (Meander) River, owed its importance to its position on trade routes.
		The role of Miletus was significant in the defeat of the Persians at the Mycale battle in 479 BC.
		Miletus was a major port city located on a peninsula with four harbors.
	www.turkishodyssey.com /places/aegean/aegean4.htm (2284 words)

	miletus
		Situated at the mouth of the Meander in the south of the province of Ionia in Western Anatolia, the ancient city of Miletus was the oldest and the most powerful of the twelve Ionian cities in Asia Minor.
		The fact that Miletus formerly possessed four separate harbours well indicates the important role played by the Meander in the history of the city.
		Miletus had a special agreement with Croesus, but after the collapse of Lydia in 547-546 B.C. the city came under Persian hegemony.
	www.turizm.net /cities/miletus (962 words)

	Miletus - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Miletus, ancient Greek city of Ionia, in Asia Minor, and the most flourishing of the 12 cities of the Ionian confederacy.
		The first important geometer mentioned in history is Thales of Miletus, a Greek who lived about 600 bc.
		One group of the Sea Peoples, the Phrygians, established a kingdom that became the dominant Anatolian power in the 9th and 8th centuries bc...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Miletus.html (83 words)

	GORP - Ionian Odyssey - Miletus: Cradle of Philosophy
		Miletus reigned as the cultural, commercial and intellectual center of Ionia, but this storied maritime metropolis ended its days as a forgotten backwater 3,000 years after its founding.
		Attempts to revive Miletus during the Byzantine period achieved little, and this glorious Ionian city was reduced to a village under the Ottomans before being completely deserted in the 17th century.
		Another must-see in Miletus are the Faustina Baths, built by (and named for) the wife of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the second century A.D. This enormous complex boasted everything a modern gym-goer could desire, including a dressing room, cold room, warm room, hot room, steam room and exercise room.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/location/asia/turkey/ionimile.htm (759 words)

	Miletus
		In mythology, Miletus was said to have been founded by Neleus, a son of Codrus, the last king of Athens (not to be confused with Neleus, king of Pylos in Messenia and father of Nestor, who was one of his ancestors), with Ionians from Attica joined by Messenians fleeing the Heraclidæ.
		According to Herodotus, Miletus was one of 12 cities founded in Asia Minor by Ionians fleeing the southern shores of the gulf of Corinth west of Sicyon in northern Peloponnese when the area was conquered by Achæans, and gathered in the Ionian Confederacy (the Paniones).
		Miletus was the birthplace of several Presocratic philosophers called the Milesian from the name of that city.
	plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/miletus.htm (377 words)

	Miletus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He had two children: Caunus and Byblis.'' :''Miletus was the acuser of Socrates.
		Miletus was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, in the Aydin Province of Turkey, near the mouth of the Maeander River.
		The New Testament mentions Miletus as the site where the apostle Paul met with the elders of the church of Ephesus before his capture and travel to Rome for trial, as well as the city where Trophimus, one of Paul's travelling companions, recovered while sick.
	miletus.iqnaut.net (318 words)

	Ancient Greek Coins of Miletus (Miletos, Ionia, Anatolia, Turkey)
		The early electrum lion coins of Miletus — The first series of coins that is attributable to Miletus with certainty is a well-known group of sixth-century electrum issues that include full staters as well as thirds, sixths, twelfths, and twenty-fourths.
		The bronze lion/sun series — The earliest bronze coins of Miletus, from the fourth century BC, revived one of the oldest stylistic themes in the city’s coinage: the sun-like reverse design.
		Among the provincial bronze coins struck at Miletus by a number of Roman emperors were these types which feature an obverse portrait of the emperor Nero and a reverse image of the Milesian cult statues of Apollo Didymaeus and Artemis.
	rjohara.net /coins (1640 words)

	Miletus - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		A famous early Ionian Greek city on the coast of Caria, near the mouth of the Meander River, which, according to Acts 20:15-21:1, and 2 Timothy 4:20 (the King James Version "Miletum"), Paul twice visited.
		Miletus has been so ruined that its plan can no longer be made out.
		Practically the only remaining object of unusual interest is theater, the largest in Asia Minor, which was not built in a hollow of the hillside, as most ancient theaters were, but in the open field.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T6046 (362 words)

	MILETUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The name, which is Miletos in the lonic dialect and Milatos in the Doric one, is said to be related to the city of Milatos situated on the island of Crete.
		That Miletus was founded in the 10th century BC at the end of the Greek migrations, by lonians under the direction of Neleus, son of King Codros of Athens, is still another hypothesis....
		The village of Balat, Iying within the ruins of Miletus, was destroyed completely in the earthquake of 1955 and was moved into the new settlement area, about 1 km to the south of Miletus.
	www.geocities.com /miletmuseum/miletus.htm (284 words)

	Miletus - once the city of philosophers
		It is situated south of Izmir, in the province of Aydin, 20 kilometres north of Didyma.
		Its schools made a very great contribution to the intellectual and scholarly development of the Mediterranean world and one cannot talk of Miletus without mention of the great contributions to geometry and science made by Thales, one of the greatest scholars produced by the city.
		Miletus is also renowned as the first city to which the principles of modern town-planning were applied.
	www.bodrumpages.com /English/miletus.html (858 words)

	Wikinfo \| Miletus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Scholars have generally agreed that the Anatolian city Milawata mentioned in Hittite records should be identified with Miletus.
		In the 6th century BC, Miletus had become a maritime empire, having founded on several colonies.
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	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Miletus (279 words)

	Thales of Miletus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		At Miletus it could readily be observed that water had the capacity to thicken into earth.
		The ruins of the once prosperous city-port of Miletus are now ten kilometres distant from the coast and the Island of Lade now forms part of a rich agricultural plain.
		The wealth of Miletus was the result of its success as a trading centre, and there would have been no difficulty in arranging passage on one of the many vessels which traded through of Miletus.
	www.iep.utm.edu /t/thales.htm (9340 words)

	Miletus - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		MILETUS [Miletus], ancient seaport of W Asia Minor, in Caria, on the mainland not far from Sámos.
		It was occupied by Greeks in the settlement of the E Aegean (c.1000 BC) and became one of the principal cities of Ionia.
		Miletus produced some of the earliest Greek philosophers, including Thales and Anaximander.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-miletus.html (229 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Miletus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Miletus MILETUS [Miletus], ancient seaport of W Asia Minor, in Caria, on the mainland not far from Sámos.
		Olbia OLBIA [Olbia], Ionic Greek colony of Miletus, founded at the beginning of the 6th cent.
		Thales THALES [Thales], c.636-c.546 BC, pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Miletus and reputed founder of the Milesian school of philosophy.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/08472.html (471 words)

	Ancient Greek Coins of Miletus (Miletos, Ionia, Anatolia, Turkey)
		The early electrum lion coins of Miletus — The first series of coins that is attributable to Miletus with certainty is a well-known group of sixth-century electrum issues that include full staters as well as thirds, sixths, twelfths, and twenty-fourths.
		Among the provincial bronze coins struck at Miletus by a number of Roman emperors were these types which feature an obverse portrait of the emperor Nero and a reverse image of the Milesian cult statues of Apollo Didymaeus and Artemis.
		Ottoman silver akçes of Sultan Mehmed I — During the Byzantine period Miletus came to be known as Palatia, from the old “palaces” that dotted the site and the new Byzantine castle built into the ruins of the Roman theater.
	www.rjohara.net /coins (1640 words)

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