Pteria Broomei
Pteria may refer to: *Pteria (Cappadocia) Pteria () was the capital of the Leucosyri in northern Cappadocia. They were said by Herodotus to have been taken and ruined by Croesus in 547 BCE. It also was the place of the Battle of Pteria, an undecided battle between Cyrus the Great a ... a town in ancient Cappadocia (in modern Turkey) * ''Pteria'' (bivalve) a genus of bivalve molluscs, the winged oysters {{Disambig ...
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Pteria (Cappadocia)
Pteria () was the capital of the Leucosyri in northern Cappadocia. They were said by Herodotus to have been taken and ruined by Croesus in 547 BCE. It also was the place of the Battle of Pteria, an undecided battle between Cyrus the Great and Croesus. Stephanus of Byzantium cites two towns with this or a similar name: a Pterium, which he calls a town of the Medes The Medes were an Iron Age Iranian peoples, Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media (region), Media between western Iran, western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, they occupied the m ..., and Pteria, a town in the territory of Sinope. Its site is located near Kerkenes Dağ, Asiatic Turkey. External links The Histories of Herodotus By Herodotus, Henry Cary* References Attribution Populated places in ancient Cappadocia Former populated places in Turkey History of Yozgat Province {{Yozgat-geo-stub ...
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