Magnesia (Asia Minor) - Revision history

Angellight 888 at 15:49, March 8, 2009

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Irlandos at 11:50, May 25, 2007

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Irlandos: New page: '''Magnesia''' was a city of Lydia, situated about 65 km northeast of Smyrna on the river Hermus at the foot of Mount Sipylus. Nowadays this is the location of Manisa in Turkey...

2007-05-25T11:49:13Z

New page: '''Magnesia''' was a city of Lydia, situated about 65 km northeast of Smyrna on the river Hermus at the foot of Mount Sipylus. Nowadays this is the location of Manisa in Turkey...

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'''Magnesia''' was a city of Lydia, situated about 65 km northeast of [[Smyrna]] on the river [[Hermus]] at the foot of [[Mount Sipylus]]. Nowadays this is the location of Manisa in Turkey, population 214,000.

No mention of the town is found till [[190 BC]], when [[Antiochus the Great]] was defeated in the [[battle of Magnesia]] by the Roman consul Lucius Scipio Asiaticus. It became a city of importance under the Roman dominion and, though nearly destroyed by an earthquake in the reign of Tiberius, was restored by that emperor and flourished through the Roman empire. It was one of the few towns in this part of [[Asia Minor]] which remained prosperous under the Turkish rule. The most famous relic of antiquity is the [[Niobe of Sipylus]] on the lowest slopes of the mountain about 6 km east of the town. This is a colossal seated image cut in a niche of the rock, of Hittite origin, and perhaps that called by [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] the very ancient statue of the Mother of the Gods, carved by [[Broteas]], son of [[Tantalus]], and sung by [[Homer]]. Near it lie many remains of a primitive city, and about a kilometer east is the rock-seat conjecturally identified with Pausanias' [[Throne of Pelops]]. There are also hot springs and a sacred grotto of [[Apollo]].

During the [[Asia Minor Expedition]] of [[1919]] - [[1922]], Magnesia was occupied early by the Greek Army. Before the population exchange, it had a Greek minority of roughly 10% of the total population.

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 No mention of the town is found till [[190 BC]], when [[Antiochus the Great]] was defeated in the [[battle of Magnesia]] by the Roman consul Lucius Scipio Asiaticus. It became a city of importance under the Roman dominion and, though nearly destroyed by an earthquake in the reign of Tiberius, was restored by that emperor and flourished through the Roman empire. It was one of the few towns in this part of [[Asia Minor]] which remained prosperous under the Turkish rule. The most famous relic of antiquity is the [[Niobe of Sipylus]] on the lowest slopes of the mountain about 6 km east of the town. This is a colossal seated image cut in a niche of the rock, of Hittite origin, and perhaps that called by [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] the very ancient statue of the Mother of the Gods, carved by [[Broteas]], son of [[Tantalus]], and sung by [[Homer]]. Near it lie many remains of a primitive city, and about a kilometer east is the rock-seat conjecturally identified with Pausanias' [[Throne of Pelops]]. There are also hot springs and a sacred grotto of [[Apollo]].
-During the  [[Asia Minor Expedition]] of [[1919]] - [[1922]], Magnesia was occupied early by the Greek Army. Before the population exchange, it had a Greek minority of roughly 10% of the total population.
+During the  [[Asia Minor Expedition]] of [[1919]] - [[1922]], Magnesia was occupied on [[May 25]], [[1919]] by the Greek Army. Before the population exchange, it had a Greek minority comprising roughly 10% of the total population.
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