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The Lycus valley was never much inhabited in the Byzantine period, but it was a favored place for the settlement of Greek Orthodox monasteries: [9] famous were those of Dios and Ikasia (or Cassia), Cocorobion and Lips. [6] In 450, while hunting in the valley near Constantinople, Emperor Theodosius II (r. 402–450) fell from his horse and died ...
Lycus or Lykos (Ancient Greek: Λύκος; Turkish: Çürüksu) was the name of a river in ancient Phrygia. It is a tributary of the Maeander and joins it a few kilometers south of Tripolis . It had its sources in the eastern parts of Mount Cadmus ( Strabo xii. p. 578), not far from those of the Meander itself, and it flowed westerly towards ...
Laodicea on the Lycus was built on the site of an earlier pre-Hellenistic settlement, on a hill above the Lycus river, close to its confluence with the Maeander. Laodicea was founded by Antiochus II Theos, king of the Seleucid Empire, in 261-253 BC in honour of his wife Laodice, together with several other cities of the same name. [8]
Colossae was located in Phrygia, in Asia Minor. [2] It was located 15 km (9.3 mi) southeast of Laodicea on the road through the Lycus Valley near the Lycus River at the foot of Mt. Cadmus, the highest mountain in Turkey's western Aegean Region, and between the cities Sardeis and Celaenae, and southeast of the ancient city of Hierapolis.
Lycus (river of Cilicia), flows from the Pyramus to the Pinarus; Lycus, now known as Kouris, in Cyprus that flows into the Mediterranean Sea at Kourion; Lycus (river of Lydia), a tributary of the Hyllus river; Lycus (river of Mysia), near Carseae; Lycus (river of Phoenicia), also known as Nahr al-Kalb, flows into the Mediterranean near Beirut
Qalaat Faqra is an archaeological site in Kfardebian, Lebanon, with Roman and Byzantine ruins. Located near the Faqra ski resort on the slopes of Mount Sannine at an altitude of 1500 m (and exactly half-way between Berytus and Heliopolis, the two main Roman cities in Roman Phoenicia), it is one of the most important sites of the UNESCO-listed valley of Nahr al-Kalb (the classical "Lycus river").
Hierapolis is located on terrace three hundred feet above the Lycus river (modern Çürüksu), a tributary Büyük Menderes (the classical Meander), across the valley from ancient Laodicea on the Lycus and modern Denizli. [1]
From there the wall descends into the valley of the river Lycus, where it reaches its lowest point at 35 m above sea level. Climbing the slope of the Sixth Hill, the wall then rises up to the Gate of Charisius or Gate of Adrianople, at some 76 m height. [38] From the Gate of Adrianople to the Blachernae, the walls fall to a level of some 60 m.