Leukai (Ionia)

Leukai ( Greek  Λεῦκαι ), also Leuke ( Λεύκη ) was an ancient city in the Ionia region of Asia Minor , on the Aegean coast of today's Turkey near Üç Tepeler, south of Phokaia ( Foça ).

Leukai is said to be in the 4th century BC. By the Persian officer Tachos. The city belonged to the area of ​​influence of Klazomenai and always remained insignificant, even if it minted its own coins in the 2nd half of the 4th century. In the 2nd century BC She joined the revolt of Aristonikos against the Romans .

literature

• George Ewart Bean :  Leukai (Üç Tepeler) Turkey . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
• George Ewart Bean: Asia Minor . Volume 1. Aegean Turkey from Pergamon to Didyma . 5th edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-17-009678-8 , pp. 125-126.

Web links

• Coins of Leukai (English)