Magnesia on Sipylos
Magnesia ad Sipylum ( Greek Μαγνησία ἡ ὑπὸ Σιπύλῳ ; Latin : Magnesia ad Sipylum ) was an ancient city in Asia Minor landscape Lydia at the site of the present Manisa in Turkey . It was at the northern foot of the Sipylos Mountains and on the bank of the Hermos River .
The Battle of Magnesia in 190 BC Between the Roman Republic in league with King Eumenes of Pergamon on one side and Antiochus III. the great , the king of the Seleucid Empire , on the other hand, ended in a Roman victory and led in 188 BC. For the peace of Apamea .
Magnesia was later a free city in the Roman province of Asia . An earthquake caused severe damage in 17 AD , whereupon the Emperor Tiberius organized financial and organizational aid for the reconstruction.
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literature
- William L. MacDonald: Magnesia ad Sipylum (Manisa) Lydia, 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 .
- Thomas Ihnken: The inscriptions of Magnesia on Sipylos. With a comment on the Sympolitie contract with Smyrna. Habrlt, Bonn, 1978 ( inscriptions of Greek cities from Asia Minor , vol. 8), ISBN 3-7749-1485-0 .
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Coordinates: 38 ° 37 ' N , 27 ° 26' E