Assesos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Anika Campbell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Anika Campbell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 13, 2026 01:35 PM
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History
An ancient city with an archaic temple of Athena, identified with modern Mengerevtepe, which is located southeast of Miletos, in Caria, Turkey.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/978383930
37.484, 27.333
- Representative Locations:
- ToposText location (750 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 1000 meters.
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- Ἀσσησός (Assesos: Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
- Mengerevtepe (Turkish, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Assesos located southeast of Miletus (unspecified date range)
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Pleiades
Anika Campbell, R. Scott Smith, Brady Kiesling, Greta Hawes, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Assesos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/978383930> [accessed: 13 October 2026]
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