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Black Sea port and capital of a province of the same name in northern Turkey; situated at the mouth of the Murat River in a tobacco-growing area; population (2000) 363,200. It is the site of the ancient city of Amisus.



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0/0/-86--When Lucius Cornelius Sulla occupied Athens in 86 BC, he carried off the library of Appellicon to Rome, where they were first published in 60 BC by the grammarian Tyrranion of Amisus and then by philosopher Andronicus of Rhodes.
 
 
 
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