Lebedus

Lebedos was an ancient Greek city, and was one of the twelve Ionian cities of Asia Minor 's Aegean coast (now Turkey). It was located on a peninsula, which today bears the name kisik and belongs to the modern place Ürkmez. Your Acropolis was half a kilometer inland on a hill about 35 meters high. In antiquity, the next significant Smyrna were in the north, colophon in the east and in the south of Ephesus.

The city was founded in the 7th century BC. She was famous for its hot springs, which Lebedos a popular spa town made ​​, as well as for its temple of Apollo Klarios and for an annual festival of Dionysus.

In ancient times, they told the story, fishermen from Lebedos had once a valuable tripod from the sea pulled, which had been made ​​by Hephaestus himself. They were arguing about it, and when they could not agree, they asked an oracle, and received in reply, the tripod should the greatest sages are - then they brought him to the valley.

To 304 BC Antigonus I wanted Monophthalmos the city Lebedos merge with Teos and relocate the residents to a new location. This synoecism but was realized only partially. Another synoecism found at the beginning of the 3rd century BC place under Lysimachus, who wanted to settle the inhabitants of Lebedos together with citizens of Colophon and Teos in the renamed Arsinoeia in Ephesus. The city was re-established by 266 BC by Ptolemy II, initially under the name Ptolemais. Strabo reported that the Dionysian Artists Guild of Techniten had its seat in Lebedos after they had been expelled at the end of the 3rd century BC for her relaxed way of life of Teos.

Horace compared Lebedos in the 1st century BC Roman with tiny villages:

In fact, there was Lebedos but in the Roman Empire continued, coined by the end of the 2nd century its own coins and was in Late Antiquity seat of a bishop. In the Diocese of the titular Lebedus the Roman Catholic Church is declining.

Today is nothing to see except some remains of the walls of Lebedos.