Ancient site· Ezine, Çanakkale

Kokylion

Kokylion is a ancient site in Ezine, Çanakkale; Cocylium (Kokylion) was a town of the ancient Troad or of Mysia.

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Cocylium (Kokylion) was a town of the ancient Troad or of Mysia. Xenophon mentions it by noting that the inhabitants of Cocylium, together with those of Ilium and Neandria, declared themselves independent and allied with the Spartan Dercylidas when he came to Aeolia to try to liberate the Greek colonies from Persian rule; Pliny the Elder also notes the town.

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