- Nysa, Anatolia
Nysa was an ancient Greek city of
Anatolia , whose remnants are now in theSultanhisar district ofAydın Province ofTurkey 50 km east of theIonia n city ofEphesus . The geographer and historianStrabo , born in Amasiya started his life of study in Nysa, which was an important center of learning in the first century BC. The city had been dedicated toDionysus when it was founded byAntiochus I Soter in the third century BC, and it was still famous as a city of scholars in the second century AD. For about a thousand years after that the city had its ups and downs. It suffered from the depredations of the Christians, the Muslims and the Turks as they came in and out of the place, and it was finally abandoned after being sacked byTamerlane in1402 .There are important ruins on the site from the
Hellenistic period, the Roman period and the Byzantine era. Much of the open air Greek theatre and its walled entrances are still intact. Thelibrary currently has three walls. There are remnants of a gymnasion, a Roman bath and abouleuterion .
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