Apamea Myrlea
Ancient siteMudanya, Bursa
40.3764°N · 28.8833°E
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Apamea Myrlea is a ancient site; Apamea Myrlea was an ancient city on the Sea of Marmara coast in ancient Bithynia, located today about 1 km southeast of the Mudanya district of Bursa.
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Apamea Myrlea was an ancient city on the Sea of Marmara coast in ancient Bithynia, located today about 1 km southeast of the Mudanya district of Bursa. Known as Hisarlık and thought to have been founded on Yayvan Tepe by colonists from Colophon in the 7th century BC, it was uncovered during a construction excavation in 2012 and declared a protected site.
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- The city was a bishopric under the name Apamea in Bithynia.
- Its founders are taken to be Colophonians who came from Ionia.
- The protected-site designation came only after a construction dig exposed the city in 2012.
- In 2020 antiquities smugglers removed and broke up many pieces from the site.
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