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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 (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 older neighbor, Magnesia ...
The Sabuncubeli Tunnel (Turkish: Sabuncubeli Tüneli) is a road tunnel located on the Mount Sipylus (Turkish: Spil Dağı) in Aegean Region as part of the Manisa-Izmir highway D.565 E881 in Turkey. Situated near Kocakara village in the northeast and Beşyol village of Bornova district in the southwest on the province border of Manisa and Izmir ...
Munzur Valley National Park. The Munzur Valley National Park (Turkish: Munzur Vadisi Milli Parkı), established on December 21, 1971, is the largest and the most biodiverse national park in Turkey. It is located at the Munzur Valley of Munzur Mountain Range within Tunceli Province in eastern Anatolia. [1][2]
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.
Area code. 0236. Website. www.turgutlu.bel.tr. Turgutlu, also known as Kasaba (Cassaba or Casaba) is a municipality and district of Manisa Province, Turkey. [2] Its area is 549 km 2, [3] and its population is 175,401 (2022). [1] Its elevation is 68 m (223 ft). The name derives from the name of the Turkish clan of "Turgutlu" (also cited as ...
Niobe is an abstract painting by Károly Patkó. [ 27 ] In classical music, Italian composer Agostino Steffani (1654 – 1728) dedicated his opera " Niobe, Queen of Saba " to her myth, and Giovanni Pacini too wrote an opera on this myth. Benjamin Britten based one of his Six Metamorphoses after Ovid on Niobe.