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🏛️ Dorylaion-Prusias ad Olympum

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🏛️ Dorylaion-Prusias ad Olympum
Hellenistic and Roman city ruins in northwestern Anatolia


🕐 2 min read · Updated 15 Mar 2026 at 14:35
📌 Fast Facts
  • Located near Eskişehir in Türkiye's Phrygian region
  • Dual-phase settlement: Dorylaion (Hellenistic) and Prusias ad Olympum (Roman)
  • Strategic position on ancient trade routes between Bithynia and central Anatolia
  • Site of the Battle of Dorylaion (1097 CE), a significant Crusade engagement

Dorylaion-Prusias ad Olympum represents a layered settlement history spanning Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods in northwestern Anatolia. The ...

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