🏛️ Magnesia ad Maeandrum
Hellenistic and Roman city ruins in western Türkiye
📌 Fast Facts
- Located in Ionia (modern Tekke, near Ortaklar, Aydın Province), approximately 35 km southeast of Izmir
- Founded in the 4th century BCE; became a major Hellenistic city and important Roman settlement
- Home to the Temple of Artemis Leukophryene, one of the finest Ionic temples of antiquity
- Excavated primarily by German archaeologists in the early 20th century
Magnesia ad Maeandrum was a prosperous Ionian city situated on the Maeander (Meander) River in what is now ...