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See also:CLAZOMENAE (mod. Kelisman)
, an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Ionia and a member of the Ionian Dodecapolis (See also:Confederation of Twelve Cities), on the Gulf of See also:Smyrna, about 20 M
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W. of that See also:city
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Though not in existence before the arrival of the See also:Ionians in See also:Asia, its See also:original founders were largely settlers from Phlius and Cleonae
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It stood originally on the See also:isthmus connecting the mainland with the See also:peninsula on which See also:Erythrae stood; but the inhabitants, alarmed by the encroachments of the Persians, removed to one of the small islands of the See also:bay, and there established their city
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This See also:island was connected with the mainland by See also:
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