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CLAZOMENAE (mod. Kelisman)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 476 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLAZOMENAE (mod. Kelisman) , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Ionia and a member of the Ionian Dodecapolis (See also:Confederation of Twelve Cities), on the Gulf of See also:Smyrna, about 20 M. W. of that See also:city. Though not in existence before the arrival of the See also:Ionians in See also:Asia, its See also:original founders were largely settlers from Phlius and Cleonae. It stood originally on the See also:isthmus connecting the mainland with the See also:peninsula on which See also:Erythrae stood; but the inhabitants, alarmed by the encroachments of the Persians, removed to one of the small islands of the See also:bay, and there established their city. This See also:island was connected with the mainland by See also:Alexander the See also:Great by means of a See also:pier, the remains of which are still visible. During the 5th See also:century it was for some See also:time subject to the Athenians, but about the See also:middle of the Peloponnesian See also:war (412 B.c.) it revolted. After a brief resistance, however, it again acknowledged the Athenian supremacy, and repelled a Lacedaemonian attack. Under the See also:Romans Clazomenae was included in the See also:province of Asia, and enjoyed an See also:immunity from See also:taxation. The site can still be made out, in the neighbourhood of Vourla, but nearly every portion of its ruins has been removed. It was the birthplace of the philosopher Anaxagoras. It is famous for its painted terra-See also:cotta sarcophagi, which are the finest monuments of Ionian See also:painting in the 6th century B.C.

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