A second group of Aeolian settlements is …
Years: 645BCE - 634BCE
A second group of Aeolian settlements is colonized on the west coast of Anatolia in the seventh century BCE.
Assus, founded by Aeolic colonists from Methymna in Lesbos in the first millennium BCE, is constructed on the terraced slopes, partly natural and partly artificial, of an isolated cone of trachyte that rises steeply more than seven hundred feet (two hundred meters) above the sea.
Assus has the only good harbor on the north shore of the Gulf of Adramyti (Gulf of Edremit) and commands coastal traffic.
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- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Greek colonization
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
