Ancient site· Dinar, Afyonkarahisar
Celaenae
Kelainai
Celaenae is a ancient site in Dinar, Afyonkarahisar; Celaenae (Kelainai) was an ancient city of Phrygia and capital of the Persian satrapy of Greater Phrygia, situated near the source of the Maeander River on the great trade route to the East in what is today west-central Turkey.
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- 38.0669°N · 30.1693°E
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Celaenae (Kelainai) was an ancient city of Phrygia and capital of the Persian satrapy of Greater Phrygia, situated near the source of the Maeander River on the great trade route to the East in what is today west-central Turkey. The city was later known as Apamea Cibotus.
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In Dinar, Afyonkarahisar, close to the source of the Menderes, stood the capital of the Persian satrapy of Greater Phrygia. Herodotus has Xerxes I passing through in 480 BC on his campaign against Greece; in 401 BC Cyrus the Younger gathered here the Greek mercenaries who became the subject of Xenophon's Anabasis. In 280 BC Antiochus I Soter moved it to more open ground and refounded it as Apameia after his mother; in 188 BC the Treaty of Apameia was signed here. Phrygian legend held that the flayed skin of the satyr Marsyas, beaten by Apollo in a music contest, hung in the city square.
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- In 394 BC the Spartan king Agesilaus II consulted an oracle about attacking the city; the omens were unfavourable and he withdrew to Ephesus.
- The stream rising near the acropolis was named after the satyr Marsyas, ran 25 feet wide and emptied into the Menderes.
- Under Rome it was one of twenty Anatolian cities striking bronze coinage, and it also served as a judicial centre.
- Excavation continues at the theatre on the western slope of a natural hill; a stadium lies west of Tekke Tepe.
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