Miletus
| Miletus (Grc) | ||
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 Theater and archaeological site of Miletus | ||
| Location | ||
| Country |  Turkey | |
| Province | Aydn | |
| District | Didim | |
| Village | Balat | |
| Region of Antiquity | Ionia | |
| Contact | 37 31 '50 "North 27 16 '45 "East / 37.530557, 27.279246 | |
 Position of Miletus at the mouth of the Meander . | ||
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Miletus (in ancient Greek / was an ancient Greek city Ionian , provided with a good harbor on the coast of Asia Minor. The archaeological site is located a few kilometers north of the town of Balat , who was one of the capitals of beylik of Mentee the fourteenth century. The site of Miletus is now over 5 km inland due to the filling of the bay by the silt brought by the Meander.
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During the seventh and sixth centuries BC. BC , Miletus, who is said to have been originally a colony of Crete , itself founded many colonies on the Black Sea , as Phaisis , and was a major maritime power.
It was a great glow to the late seventh centuryBC. AD under the tyranny of Thrasybulus , but after the expulsion of the tyrant, she suffered a violent internal conflicts, finally stopped by referee Paros who handed power to the hands of landowners.
During the sixth century BC. BC, she gave birth philosophers Thales , Anaximander , Anaximenes and later Hecataeus the logographer and Phocylides poet.
Histiaeus tyrant was during the first Persian expedition in Europe. Later, his son Aristagoras ruled in his stead, and both seem to have encouraged since Miletus in 499 BC. BC the revolt of Ionia cons of Persia. Miletus was captured after a siege and burned by the Persians in 494 BC. AD. Its inhabitants were deported to Susa , the Persian capital.
The reconstruction took place after the Hellenic victory against the Persians at Cape Mycale in 479 BC. AD. The work is traditionally attributed to Hippodamus of Miletus said. The city was developed with a strict urban plan, crisscrossing the city in square islands, insulae. It was also planned locations for public buildings. This model of planning, said hippodamian plot was then taken by many cities and settlements and inspired the planning model used by the Romans.
At the same time, Miletus came into the Delian League , but she rebelled against Athens in 412. Among the Milesians famous at the time, there are Aspasia , the mistress of Pericles , Hippodamus , the designer of Piraeus and poet Timothy.
In the fourth century BC. BC, Miletus came under the control of Mausolus. In 334 BC. AD , it was taken by Alexander the Great.
It was a city known for its confections and Centre of the woolen industry, the wool of Miletus was regarded in antiquity as the best in the world.
Miletus but has lost its access to the sea: sea power has failed in the land following a gradual silting, which earned him to be totally abandoned: the site does not bathe longer than in rainwater. Meanwhile, in the eleventh century, the town of Balat was built nearby by the Seljuks. Miletus / Balat passed under the authority of the dynasty or Mentechedes Menteeoullari with a Venetian interlude to 1355 and was finally incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1424.
One of the glories of the Ionian city is to have founded many colonies whose Byzantine Greek.
Archaeological site
Miletus in the Hellenistic period
The city is drawn in a plane perpendicular said "hippodamian, which Hippodamus of Miletus was the inventor.
Excavations of Theodor Wiegand in the early twentieth century have revealed much of the port city and its monuments Hellenistic :
- Bouleuterion, meeting room of the Boule (Council)
- North Market
- Market in the South, whose monumental entrance was moved and reconstructed in Berlin , the Pergamon Museum , by Theodor Wiegand
- Nymphaeum: public fountain with sculptures
- Baths of Faustina, Roman Period
- Market in the west, near the Temple of Athena
- Stage
- Delphinion, Delphinios sanctuary of Apollo, the main sanctuary of the city
- Oracular shrine of Apollo at Didyma.
The sanctuary of Apollo at Didyma , located 15 miles from Miletus, is connected to the city by a direct route from the Sacred Gate. It is the biggest of all sanctuaries of the Hellenistic world.
Famous People
- Anaximander , Greek philosopher (-610 / -546)
- Anaximenes
- Hecataeus , logographer
- Hsychios , Greek historian and biographer (sixth century BC.)
- Hippodamus , urban planner and architect (fifth century BC.)
- Isidore , Greek architect (fifth and fourth centuries BC.)
- Phocylides , poet
- Thales of Miletus
Colonies of Miletus
Pliny the Elder cites more than eighty colonies founded by Miletus Images Model of the port and market of Miletus. The monumental gate reconstituted Pergamon Museum of Berlin is at the top left Market of Miletus, Pergamon Museum of Berlin Agora and, basically, old port Ionic Stoa on the Sacred Way Theatre of Miletus Decor legged lion, theater of Miletus 
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