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Miletus

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Miletus

Ancient Greek city on the west coast of modern Turkey with a port that eventually silted up. It was famous for its woollen goods, and traded with the whole Mediterranean coast from the Mycenean period until the Roman empire.



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From the time of Thales of Miletus, in the fifth century B.
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So again the Milesians, Herodotus tells us, were long troubled by civil discord, till they asked help from Paros, and the Parians sent ten commissioners who gave Miletus a new constitution.
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The famous spearsman Idomeneus led the Cretans, who held Cnossus, and the well-walled city of Gortys; Lyctus also, Miletus and Lycastus that lies upon the chalk; the populous towns of Phaestus and Rhytium, with the other peoples that dwelt in the hundred cities of Crete.
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