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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 596 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CELAENAE  , an

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ancient
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city of
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Phrygia, situated on the
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great
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trade route to the
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East . Its
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acropolis
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long held out against
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Alexander in 333 and surrendered to him at last by arrangement . His successor,
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Eumenes, made it for some
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time his headquarters, as did Antigonus until 301 . From
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Lysimachus it passed to Seleucus, whose son
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Antiochus, seeing its
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geographical importance, refounded it on a more open site as
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Apamea (q.v.) .
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West of the acropolis were the
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palace of
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Xerxes and the
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Agora, in or near which is the cavern whence the
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Marsyas, one of the
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sources of the Maeander, issues . According to
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Xenophon,
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Cyrus had a palace and large
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park full of
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wild animals at Celaenae . See G .
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Weber,
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Dineir-Celanes (1892) .

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