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25 Phocaea (pronounced /foʊˈsiːə/, Greek: Φώκαια) is a Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by J. Chacornac on April 6, 1853. It was his first asteroid discovery. It is named after Phocaea, the ancient Greek name for Foça in Turkey. References...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Phocaea:ancient Ionian city on the northern promontory of the Gulf of Smyrna, Anatolia (now the Gulf of İzmir, Turkey); it was the mother city of several Greek colonies. When Phocaea was besieged by the Persians about 545 bc,
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A titular see in Asia, suffragan of Ephesus. The town of Phocæa was founded in the eleventh century B. C. by colonists from Phocidia led by two Athenians. In 1275 Michael VIII Palæologus gave Manuel Zaccaria the territory of the city and the right to exploit the neighbouring alum mines.
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Phocaea An ancient Ionian Greek city of western Asia Minor on the Aegean Sea in present-day Turkey Results for Phocaea...
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Phocaea coast (Click the image for a full screen view) The 9th c. BCE monochrome gray pottery found there may indicate that, like Kymians, these first inhabitants of Phocaea were Aiolians.
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(f s ´ ) (KEY) , ancient city, W Asia Minor, N of Smyrna (Izmir), in present Turkey. It was northernmost of the Greek Ionian cities. In the 7th cent. B.C. it grew into a maritime state; its chief colony was Massilia (now Marseilles). In 540 B.C., after a siege by the Persians, most of the inhabitants left,
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Phocaea. Satellite photo showing location of the ancient cities of Phocaea, Cyme and Smyrna Phocaea (modern-day Foça in Turkey) was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. It is perhaps Phocaea was the most northern of the Ionian cities. It was located near the mouth of the river Hermus (now Gediz),
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Ionian city of the coast of Lydia in Asia Minor (area 7). Phocæa was part of the Ionian Confederacy, the Paniones, grouping cities founded in Asia Minor by Ionians fleeing what was to become Achaia, in northern Peloponnese, where they had earlier settled along the southern coast of the gulf of Corinth west of Sicyon,
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Phocaea (modern-day Foça in Turkey) was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. Phocaea was the most northern of the Ionian cities. It was located near the mouth of the river Hermus (now Gediz), and situated on the coast of the peninsula separating the Gulf of Cyme to the north,
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