Colophon

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Colophon was an ancient Ionian Greek city in western Asia Minor, historically notable as one of the places claimed as the birthplace of the poet Homer.

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Colophon canonical 12

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Ionian city
ancient Greek city
associatedWith Homer
conqueredBy Achaemenid Empire
Lydian Kingdom
countryDuringClassicalPeriod Achaemenid Empire
countryDuringHellenisticPeriod Kingdom of Pergamon
countryDuringRomanPeriod Roman Empire
culturalSphere Greek Antiquity
surface form: Hellenic world
currency ancient Greek coinage
declinePeriod Hellenistic period
destroyedBy Lysimachus
ethnicGroup Ionians
foundedBy Ionians
surface form: Ionian Greeks
foundedInPeriod early first millennium BCE
hadHarbor Notion
hasArchaeologicalSite ruins near Değirmendere, Izmir Province
hasCitizenshipDemonym Colophonian
hasNameInAncientGreek Κολοφών
hasNameInLatin Colophon self-link
hasNotableProduct fine cavalry horses
resins and perfumes
hasTypeOfGovernment polis
knownFor cavalry
claim as a birthplace of Homer
luxury
prosperity in archaic period
language Ancient Greek
locatedIn Asia Minor
Ionia
Asia Minor
surface form: western Asia Minor
locatedInPresentDay Turkey
locatedOn coast of the Aegean Sea
mentionedBy Herodotus
Pausanias
Strabo
near Ephesus
Lebedus
surface form: Lebedos

Notion
partOf Ionian League
Roman province of Asia
Greek Antiquity
surface form: ancient Greece
politicalStatus independent polis before Persian conquest
regionNow İzmir Province
religion ancient Greek religion
successorSettlement Notion
timeOfGreatestProsperity archaic period

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Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Homer possibleBirthplace Colophon
Ionia majorCity Colophon
Teos nearbyAncientCity Colophon
Claros locatedNear Colophon
Colophon hasNameInLatin Colophon self-link
Ionian League hasMember Colophon
Panionion gatheredCities Colophon
oracular sanctuary of Apollo nearAncientCity Colophon
subject surface form: oracular sanctuary of Apollo at Claros
altar of Apollo near Colophon
subject surface form: Altar of Apollo at Claros