archaicwonder:The Ionic Stoa in the Agora along the flooded sacred way at MiletusThe site of Miletus
archaicwonder:The Ionic Stoa in the Agora along the flooded sacred way at MiletusThe site of Miletus was occupied from Neolithic times though the 4th century AD when the Maeander River silted up, rendering the harbor useless. The great city fell to ruins after that.In the early and middle Bronze Age, the settlement came under Minoan influence. Legend has it that an influx of Cretans occurred displacing the indigenous Leleges and the site was then renamed Miletus after a place in Crete. The Late Bronze Age saw the arrival of Luwian language speakers from south central Anatolia calling themselves the Carians. Later in that century the first Greeks arrived. The city at that time rebelled against the Hittite Empire. The city was destroyed in the 12th century BC after the fall of the Hittite Empire but was resettled extensively around 1000 BC by Ionian Greeks.The ruins of Miletus are located on the western coast of Anatolia, near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Caria (near the modern town of Balat in Aydin Province, Turkey). -- source link
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