Dascylium
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thumb|upright=1.5|The location of Hellespontine Phrygia, and the provincial capital of Dascylium, in the [[Achaemenid Empire, c. 500 BC.]] Dascylium, Dascyleium, or Daskyleion (), also known as Dascylus, was a town in Anatolia some inland from the coast of the Propontis, at modern Ergili, Turkey. Its site was rediscovered in 1952 and has since been excavated.
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- History
- Iron Age
- Phrygian period
- Persian period
- Hellenistic period
- Bishopric
- Archaeology
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thumb|upright=1.5|The location of Hellespontine Phrygia, and the provincial capital of Dascylium, in the [[Achaemenid Empire, c. 500 BC.]] Dascylium, Dascyleium, or Daskyleion (), also known as Dascylus, was a town in Anatolia some inland from the coast of the Propontis, at modern Ergili, Turkey. Its site was rediscovered in 1952 and has since been excavated.
== History == Excavations have shown that the site was inhabited in the Bronze Age.
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