Mastaura | |
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Coordinates: 37°57′23″N 28°20′30″E / 37.956332°N 28.341756°E | |
Country | Turkey |
Province | İzmir |
Mastaura (Ancient Greek: Μάσταυρα), was an ancient Greek town near Dereağzı, Nazilli in northern Caria, not to be confused with ancient Mastaura (Lycia).
Some sources speak of the town as originally belonging to Lydia, a kingdom into which Croesus (560-546 BC) briefly incorporated Caria.[1][2]
Pliny the Elder mentions the town as dependent on Ephesus as its provincial capital and thus as belonging in his time (1st century AD) to the Roman province of Asia[3] which, under the Roman Empire, incorporated Caria.
In Severan times the city became rich as evidenced by the impressive buildings.[4]