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Mount Sipylus. Mount Spil (Turkish: Spil Dağı), the ancient Mount Sipylus (Ancient Greek: Σίπυλος) (elevation 1,513 m or 4,964 ft), is a mountain rich in legends and history in Manisa Province, Turkey, in what used to be the heartland of the Lydians and what is now Turkey's Aegean Region. Its summit towers over the modern city of ...
Manisa relief. The Manisa relief, also known as the Akpınar relief and the Cybele relief ( Turkish: 'Taş Suret' (Cliff image) or Sipil Heykeli (Sipylos Monument)), is a Hittite rock relief at Akpınar, about 5 km east of the Turkish provincial capital of Manisa above an amusement park on the road to Salihli. It depicts a Hittite divinity.
Magnesia ad Sipylum. Magnesia ad Sipylum (Greek: Mαγνησία ἡ πρὸς Σιπύλῳ or Mαγνησία ἡ ἐπὶ Σιπύλου; modern Manisa, Turkey) was a city of Lydia, situated about 65 km northeast of Smyrna (now İzmir) on the river Hermus (now Gediz) at the foot of Mount Sipylus. The city should not be confused with its ...
5. Altınbeşik Cave National Park, Beydağları Coastal National Park, Mount Güllük-Termessos National Park, Köprülü Canyon National Park, Saklıkent National Park. Ankara. 4. Independence Path National Historic Park, Battle of Sakarya National Historic Park, Soğuksu National Park, Mount Sarıçalı National Park. Artvin.
Smyrna. Smyrna (/ ˈsmɜːrnə / SMUR-nə; Ancient Greek: Σμύρνη, romanized: Smýrnē, or Σμύρνα, Smýrna) was an Ancient Greek city located at a strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. Due to its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defence, and its good inland connections, Smyrna rose to prominence.
Manisa is a historic town in Western Anatolia beneath the north side of Mount Sipylus that became part of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century. During Ottoman rule, the town was governed by several princes [ 7 ] (called Şehzade ) and so is also known as a "town of the princes" (Şehzadeler şehri).
The Réserve faunique des Chic-Chocs is a wildlife reserve of Quebec located in the region of Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine on the backbone of the Appalachian chain of Chic-Chocs, specifically in the regional county municipality of Haute-Gaspésie. [1] Parc national de la Gaspésie borders the reserve to the west and the free territory ...
Richard Pococke (1704-1765) visiting Izmir in 1739 noticed some funerary tumuli upslope from Beyrakli on Yamanlar, called Mount Sipylus in classical antiquity. Richard Chandler (1737-1810) having investigated Pococke's tombs in 1764 on behalf of the Society of Dilettanti was the first to propose that Old Smyrna had been in that area of Yamanlar.