Magnesia ad Sipylum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Creators: C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Last modified
Dec 16, 2021 04:24 PM
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History
Magnesia ad Sipylum was an ancient city in Lydia in Asia Minor (modern Manisa in Turkey). Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus defeated Antiochus the Great at the battle of Magnesia in 190 BC.
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http://3.22.44.247/places/550706
38.541317, 27.4873015
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 4654 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
- DARMC location 14655 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- Magnesia ad Sipylum (550 BC - AD 640)
- Magnesia am Sipylos (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 140 BC)
- Magnēsia (Ancient Greek, 1200 BC - AD 640)
- Magnēsia Sipylou (Ancient Greek, AD 300 - AD 1450)
- Manisa (Turkish, 1750 BC - AD 2000)
- Maġnisa (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1300 - AD 1918)
- Maġnīsiya (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 1258 - AD 1501)
- Maġnīsiyāh (AD 1258 - AD 1501)
- Saruhan (unspecified date range)
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- Manisa (Turkish, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Magnesia ad Sipylum abuts Hyrcanius Campus (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 56 E4 Magnesia ad Sipylum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Manisa
C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Magnesia ad Sipylum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <http://3.22.44.247/places/550706> [accessed: 05 July 2025]
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