page_title: History of Anatolia
section_title: Hellenistic period
hierarchical_section_title: History of Anatolia / Classical Antiquity / Hellenistic period
caption_attribution_description: Marble head of a goddess, found in the Hadrianic Baths, 2nd century AD, Aphrodisias Museum
context_page_description: The history of Anatolia can be roughly subdivided into prehistory, Ancient Near East, Classical Anatolia, Hellenistic Anatolia, Byzantine Anatolia, followed by the gradual Seljuk/Ottoman conquest in the 13th to 14th centuries, Ottoman Anatolia and the modern history of the Republic of Turkey.
caption: Marble head of a goddess, found in the Hadrianic Baths of Aphrodisias, 2nd century AD.
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