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Type:
Flat Settlement
Altitude:
100 m
Diameter:
m- Direction:

Region:
Aegean
Province:
Manisa
District:
Salihli
Village:
Sardmustafa


TAYEx:
Visited - 16/9/2000

Registration State:
For detailed registration information please refer to Turkish pages.
     


Location: It is situated on the Izmir-Ankara motorway to the south of the Ahmetli District, 9 km west of the Salihli District in Manisa.
Geography and Environment: It was founded on and around a hill on the northern skirt of the Mount Bozdag (Tmolus) in the Pactolus (Sart) Brook Valley in the Gediz (Hermus) Plain. The acropolis section is 400 m high above the plain level [Umar 2001:62-65].
Destruction Details:


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