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Lamponeia

Çanakkale Province, Turkey

Lamponeia or Lamponia, also known as Lamponium or Lamponion, was an Aeolian city on the southern coast of the Troad region of Anatolia. Its archaeological remains have been located above the village of Kozlu in the district of Ayvacık in Çanakkale Province in Turkey. The site was first visited by Platon de Tchiatcheff in 1849, and later surveyed and identified as Lamponeia by Joseph Thacher Clarke, the excavator of nearby Assos, in 1882, and by Walther Judeich in 1896.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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