A depiction of the Ancient Greek city of Priene in Anatolia, by Rocio Espin Pinar. It was a village called Sampson in Byzantine times, a power base for Sabbas Asidenos, an independent ruler in Anatolia who eventually submitted his domain to the Emperor Theodore Laskaris in Nicaea
@RomeInTheEast The ruins are partly intact today and resemble this picture. There’s a remarkable amount of stone debris there and virtually no tourists.
@RomeInTheEast Μόνο εγώ βλέπω τον Σταυρό-Σβάστικα-Μαίανδρο ;
@RomeInTheEast Reminds me of Antioch
@RomeInTheEast One of the best day trips you can take out of Izmir or Ephesus is the Priene-Miletos-Didyma visit. Three amazing sites. Didyma has the most amazing Greco-Roman temple on this side of the Aegean.
@RomeInTheEast actually it was a coastal city. its coast became lowland through years so its lost its commercial port. then people abandoned the city.
@RomeInTheEast Priene is often cited as one of the first Greek cities to keep an orthogonal street plan even with steep slopes.