16 Facts About Miletus

Miletus was a Mycenaean stronghold on the coast of Asia Minor from c 1450 to 1100 BC.

Pollen in core samples from Lake Bafa in the Latmus region inland of Miletus suggests that a lightly grazed climax forest prevailed in the Maeander valley, otherwise untenanted.

Miletus was a Mycenaean stronghold on the coast of Asia Minor from c 1450 to 1100 BC.

Miletus is then mentioned in the "Tawagalawa letter", part of a series including the Manapa-Tarhunta letter and the Milawata letter, all of which are less securely dated.

City of Miletus became one of the twelve Ionian city-states of Asia Minor to form the Ionian League.

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Miletus was one of the cities involved in the Lelantine War of the 8th century BC.

Miletus had her own oracle of Apollo Didymeus Milesios in Didyma.

Miletus was an important center of philosophy and science, producing such men as Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes.

In 301 BC, after Antigonus I was killed in the Battle of Ipsus by the coalition of Lysimachus, Cassander, and Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Empire, Miletus maintained good relations with all the successors after Seleucus I Nicator made substantial donations to the sanctuary of Didyma and returned the statue of Apollo that had been stolen by the Persians in 494 BC.

Miletus benefited from Roman rule and most of the present monuments date to this period.

Miletus might have met the Ephesian elders there and then bade them farewell on the nearby beach.

Miletus is the city where Paul left Trophimus, one of his travelling companions, to recover from an illness.

Miletus was followed by Gerhard Kleiner and then by Wolfgang Muller-Wiener.

One remarkable artifact recovered from the city during the first excavations of the 19th century, the Market Gate of Miletus, was transported piece by piece to Germany and reassembled.

The harbor of Miletus was additionally protected by the nearby small island of Lade.

Miletus became known for the great number of colonies it founded.