When one drives around the lovely countryside of western Turkey, through the main road between towns of Söke and the mid-size town of Germencik, both belonging to city of Aydın, you may come across a huge, impossible-to-miss ancient city just by the road, in fact, on both sides of the road! As the main road cuts through the city. That’s the ancient city of Magnesia ad Meander(or Meandrum) which means Magnesia on the Meander(today’s Menderes river) in Latin. It is not well known compared to some other cities of old, however this city is important as it is where Romans started to dominate ancient Greece, and ancient Greek hero and saviour Themistocles lived rest of his life.
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