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Ephesus
ancient city, Turkey
Also known as: Ephesos
Ephesus, Turkey: Temple of Artemis
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Geography & Travel
- Greek:
- Ephesos
- Major Events:
- Second Council of Ephesus
- Third Council of Ephesus
- First Council of Ephesus
- Key People:
- Heraclitus
- Markos Eugenikos
- Saint Timothy
- Theodotion
- John of Ephesus
- Related Topics:
- archaeology
- aqueduct
- triumphal arch
- Related Places:
- Turkey
- Byzantine Empire
- ancient Greece
- Anatolia
- ancient Middle East
Ephesus, the most important Greek city in Ionian Asia Minor, the ruins of which lie near the modern village of Selƈuk in western Turkey. In Roman times it was situated on the northern slopes of the hills Coressus and Pion and south of the Cayster (Küçükmenderes) River, the silt from which has since formed a fertile plain but has caused the coastline to move ever farther west. The Temple of Artemis, or Diana, to which Ephesus owed much of its fame and which seems to mark the site of the classical Greek city, was probably on the seaboard when it ...(100 of 1773 words)