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CELAENAE

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 596 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CELAENAE , an See also:

ancient See also:city of See also:Phrygia, situated on the See also:great See also:trade route to the See also:East. Its See also:acropolis See also:long held out against See also:Alexander in 333 and surrendered to him at last by arrangement. His successor, See also:Eumenes, made it for some See also:time his headquarters, as did Antigonus until 301. From See also:Lysimachus it passed to Seleucus, whose son See also:Antiochus, seeing its See also:geographical importance, refounded it on a more open site as See also:Apamea (q.v.). See also:West of the acropolis were the See also:palace of See also:Xerxes and the See also:Agora, in or near which is the cavern whence the See also:Marsyas, one of the See also:sources of the Maeander, issues. According to See also:Xenophon, See also:Cyrus had a palace and large See also:park full of See also:wild animals at Celaenae. See G. See also:Weber, See also:Dineir-Celanes (1892).

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