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Hygassos

Ancient city · Turkey

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
36.740, 28.121
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Caria, in modern-day Turkey

History

Hygassos was a town of the Rhodian Peraea in ancient Caria, that was inhabited in the Hellenistic period. The name does not appear in inscriptions, but the demonym occurs frequently in ancient epigraphy.

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