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Surroundings:

Yalı [Gerenkuyu] 2018

Location:

  • Türkiye, İnişdibi
  • geo:37.050369,27.570356
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -6xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=28655

Annotations

Synagela, or Syagela, or Souagela was Lelegian city in the eastern part of Bodrum peninsula. It is located on a hill near Çiftlik Village. As a member of the Delian League constantly paid taxes to the Attica-Delos Maritime Union. Stephanos of Byzation wrote that the name Syangela means 'King's tomb', in the language of the country. 

Sources:

  1. George E. Bean, Turkey Beyond the Maeander. An Archaeological Guide, London Ernest Jersey 1971, p. 128
  2. John Anthony Cramer, A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor, Vol. II, Oxford 1832, p. 183

Nearby

Syangela

Syangela

Theangela, Tetrapyrgon (2 km)

Fortification of of Theangela at Etrim.

Theangela (2 km)

Kale Mountain above Derince village N of Çiftlik.


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