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Metroon
Metroon, also called Aulia. was a town on the Black Sea coast of ancient Bithynia, described by Arrian (Periplus of the Euxine Sea 19) as 80 stades (ca. 13 km) east of Heraclea Pontica.
Metroon (Ancient Greek: Μητρῷον), also called Aulia. was a town on the Black Sea coast of ancient Bithynia, described by Arrian (Periplus of the Euxine Sea 19) as 80 stades (ca. 13 km) east of Heraclea Pontica.
Its site is located near Köseağzı in Asiatic Turkey.
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The closest 8 places around Metroon; sorted without regard to province borders.
Distances are as the crow flies; driving distance may be longer.
Heraclea Pontica
Heraclea Pontica, known in Byzantine and later times as Pontoheraclea, was an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor, at the mouth of…
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Tium
Tium was an ancient settlement, also known as Phileios, on the south coast of the Black Sea at the mouth of the river Billaeus in present-day Turkey.
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Oxinas
Oxinas or Oxines was a town on the eastern coast of ancient Bithynia located on the Black Sea, probably near the mouth of the river of the same name.
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Crenides
Crenides or Krenides, or Cranides or Kranides, was a town on the Pontic coast of Bithynia, according to Arrian 60 stadia east of Sandaraca…
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