Ionian Timeline

1500 BCE – 700 CE · 3 sites

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Miletus

1500 BCE – 700 CE

Birthplace of Western philosophy — home to Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes. One of the greatest Ionian cities, with a massive theatre, baths, and the ancient world's first grid-planned city layout.

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Priene

350 BCE – 300 CE

The textbook example of Hellenistic urban planning — a model Greek city laid out on a perfect grid by Hippodamos, crowned by the Temple of Athena designed by Pytheos, the same architect who built the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.

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Teos

1000 BCE – 200 CE

One of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, home to the grandest temple of Dionysus in the ancient world and birthplace of the lyric poet Anacreon, set on a beautiful harbor peninsula near modern Sığacık.

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