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🏛️ Pompeiopolis-Kaisareia Hadrianopolis

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🏛️ Pompeiopolis-Kaisareia Hadrianopolis
Ruined Greco-Roman city on the Black Sea coast of northern Anatolia


🕐 2 min read · Updated 16 Mar 2026 at 07:12
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  • Located in Kastamonu Province, Turkey, near the town of İnebolu on the Black Sea coast
  • Founded as Pompeiopolis in the 1st century BCE; renamed Kaisareia under Roman rule, later Hadrianopolis
  • Partially excavated; remains include fortification walls, theater ruins, and scattered architectural fragments
  • Largely unexcavated; limited visitor infrastructure and no formal museum on-site

Pompeiopolis-Kaisareia Hadrianopolis was an important harbor city on the southern Black Sea coast during the Hellenistic and Roman ...

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