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Celaenae

For the deme of ancient Attica, see Celaenae (Attica).

Celaenae (Celænæ) or Kelainai (Greek: Κελαιναί) was an ancient city of Phrygia and capital of the Persian satrapy of Greater Phrygia,[1] near the source of the Maeander River in what is today west central Turkey (Dinar of Afyonkarahisar Province), and was situated on the great trade route to the East.[2]

  1. ^ Pierre Briant, tr. Peter T. Daniels, From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire (Eisenbrauns, 2006: ISBN 1-57506-120-1), p. 2.
  2. ^ Chisholm 1911.

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