Miletus | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 03/10/2019

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00:02:35 1 Geography
00:03:55 1.1 Geology
00:05:07 2 History
00:05:16 2.1 Neolithic
00:06:13 2.2 Bronze Age
00:06:43 2.2.1 Minoan period
00:07:45 2.2.2 Mycenaean period
00:10:01 2.3 Dark Age
00:10:36 2.4 Archaic period
00:10:57 2.4.1 Ties with Megara
00:12:43 2.5 First Achaemenid period
00:13:34 2.6 Classical Greek period
00:14:09 2.7 Second Achaemenid period
00:14:50 2.8 Macedonian period
00:16:36 2.9 Seleucid period
00:17:19 2.10 Egyptian period
00:17:52 2.11 Roman period
00:19:22 2.12 Byzantine period
00:19:49 2.13 Turkish rule
00:20:45 2.14 Archaeological excavations
00:22:04 3 Colonies
00:23:02 4 Notable people
00:24:45 5 See also
00:25:02 6 References and sources
00:25:35 7 Further reading
00:26:01 8 External links



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Miletus (; Ancient Greek: Μίλητος, romanized: Milētos; Hittite transcription Millawanda or Milawata (exonyms); Latin: Miletus; Turkish: Milet) was an ancient Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Caria. Its ruins are located near the modern village of Balat in Aydın Province, Turkey. Before the Persian invasion in the middle of the 6th century BC, Miletus was considered the greatest and wealthiest of Greek cities.Evidence of first settlement at the site has been made inaccessible by the rise of sea level and deposition of sediments from the Maeander. The first available evidence is of the Neolithic.
In the early and middle Bronze age the settlement came under Minoan influence. Legend has it that an influx of Cretans occurred displacing the indigenous Leleges. The site was renamed Miletus after a place in Crete.
The Late Bronze Age, 13th century BC, saw the arrival of Luwian language speakers from south central Anatolia calling themselves the Carians. Later in that century other Greeks arrived. The city at that time rebelled against the Hittite Empire. After the fall of that empire the city was destroyed in the 12th century BC and starting about 1000 BC was resettled extensively by the Ionian Greeks. Legend offers an Ionian foundation event sponsored by a founder named Neleus from the Peloponnesus.
The Greek Dark Ages were a time of Ionian settlement and consolidation in an alliance called the Ionian League. The Archaic Period of Greece began with a sudden and brilliant flash of art and philosophy on the coast of Anatolia. In the 6th century BC, Miletus was the site of origin of the Greek philosophical (and scientific) tradition, when Thales, followed by Anaximander and Anaximenes (known collectively, to modern scholars, as the Milesian School) began to speculate about the material constitution of the world, and to propose speculative naturalistic (as opposed to traditional, supernatural) explanations for various natural phenomena.
Miletus is the birthplace of the Hagia Sophia's architect (and inventor of the flying buttress) Isidore of Miletus and Thales, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (and one of the Seven Sages of Greece) in c. 624 BC.