Magnesia ad Sipylum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Last modified
May 18, 2023 07:50 PM
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History
Magnesia ad Sipylum was an ancient city in Lydia in Asia Minor (modern Manisa in Turkey). Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus defeated Antiochus the Great at the battle of Magnesia in 190 BC.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550706
38.6125793, 27.4333969
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location of modern Manisa (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Magnesia ad Sipylum (550 BC - AD 640)
- Magnesia am Sipylos (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 140 BC)
- Magnēsia (Ancient Greek, 1200 BC - AD 640)
- Magnēsia Sipylou (Ancient Greek, AD 300 - AD 1450)
- Manisa (Turkish, 1750 BC - AD 2000)
- Maġnisa (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1300 - AD 1918)
- Maġnīsiya (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 1258 - AD 1501)
- Maġnīsiyāh (AD 1258 - AD 1501)
- Saruhan (unspecified date range)
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- Manisa (Turkish, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Magnesia ad Sipylum abuts Hyrcanius Campus (unspecified date range)
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settlement, settlement-modern
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 E4 Magnesia ad Sipylum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Manisa
C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Magnesia ad Sipylum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550706> [accessed: 16 April 2024]
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