The ancient city of Apollonia

The ancient Greek city of ApolloniaCurrently they are only ruins, it was located in the current city of Iliros.
This city was founded by Greeks in 588 BC, and was consecrated to the god Apollo.
At the time Apolonia It was flourishing, it was an intellectual center, Periandro one of the 7 Greek sages, had created the school of philosophy, where both Greeks and Romans attended.
When Augustus was young, he studied at Apollonia in 48 BC, and it was there that he was informed of Caesar's death.
That city was very well located in the right course of the river Aao, and most of its ruins are in the city of Fier, it was also a commercial center, attended by Illyrian and Corinthian merchants.
En Apolonia a lot of money was coming in from the black slave trade.
Its inhabitants were expert farmers, exploiting the fertile fields they owned and cultivating good relationships with their neighbors.
They had an excellent port capable of handling 100 ships at the same time.
If it would be important the city of Apollonia As a commercial center, it had its own mint, where they minted the coin.
At the end of ancient times, they left the city, but its monuments are still in good condition to this day.
Some monuments are the Odeon of Apollonia, the ruins of a Temple that was a monument to the Agonotetas.
The city collapsed when an earthquake destroyed the port.
It was a city with very good laws.
In 2006 the remains of the fifth Greek temple, built at the end of the 1960th century BC, were discovered, in the 50s full-length statues were discovered, at the age of XNUMX, when the excavations restarted, a bust of a Roman soldier was found.
Part of the archaeological collections were looted for sale.


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