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magnesia

Common name for magnesium oxide.

Magnesia

Name of two ancient cities of Asia Minor. One was in Lydia, near Smyrna; the other further south, in Ionia, near Ephesus.

Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern Manisa, Turkey), 64 km/40 mi northeast of Smyrna, was the site of the battle in which the Seleucid king Antiochus III was defeated by a Roman army under Lucius Cornelius Scipio in 190 BC.

Magnesia ad Maeandrum, in Ionia, was on a small tributary of the Maeander. According to tradition it was founded by colonists from Thessaly and Crete. Commercially it enjoyed great prosperity until Roman imperial times, when it disappears from the records. The exiled Athenian politician Themistocles died here in about 460 BC.



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