Teos

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Teos was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Asia Minor, known as the hometown of the lyric poet Anacreon.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Ionian city
ancient Greek city
colonized Abdera in Thrace
Phanagoria on the Cimmerian Bosporus
countryDuringByzantinePeriod Byzantine Empire
countryDuringClassicalAntiquity Achaemenid Empire
countryDuringHellenisticPeriod Kingdom of Pergamon
countryDuringRomanPeriod Roman Empire
dedicatedToDeity Dionysus
excavatedBy Turkish archaeologists
foundedBy Ionians
surface form: Ionian Greeks
hasArchaeologicalSite agora of Cyrene
surface form: agora of Teos

ancient theater of Teos
city walls
gymnasium
harbor installations
ruins of Temple of Dionysus
hasInscription decree concerning Dionysian artists
treaties with Hellenistic kings
hasPort harbor on the Aegean Sea
heritageStatus important archaeological site in western Anatolia
knownFor birthplace of lyric poet Anacreon
cult of Dionysus
large Hellenistic temple of Dionysus
language Ancient Greek
locatedIn Ionia
Seferihisar district
İzmir Province
locatedInPresentDay Turkey
locatedNear modern town of Sığacık
locatedOn western coast of Asia Minor
memberOf Ionian League
nearbyAncientCity Colophon
Ephesus
Lebedus
participatedIn Greco-Persian Wars
surface form: Ionian Revolt
periodOfFlourishing Archaic period of Greece
Hellenistic period
primaryDialect Ionian Greek
reasonForColonization pressure from Lydian and Persian rule
religiousRole center of Dionysian artists (technitai of Dionysus)
underRuleOf Achaemenid Empire
Alexander the Great
Pergamon
surface form: Attalid dynasty of Pergamon

Lydian Kingdom
Roman Empire
Roman Republic
Seleucid Empire

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

Anacreon birthPlace Teos
Anacreon citizenship Teos
Ionia majorCity Teos