Corycus, also called Korykos, was a town in ancient Ionia, in what is now Turkey, near a mountain of the same name and in the territory of Erythrae. The historian Thucydides records that in 412 BC, during the Peloponnesian War, the commanders Alcibiades and Chalcideus released prisoners there and conspired to draw Chios away from the Delian League, and that the Spartan commander Astyochus later passed through the town on his way to take command of the fleet at Miletus. It was once home to a piratical people called the Corycaei, and was the site of the Battle of Corycus in 191 BC.
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Latitude36.465278 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Corycus (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)Quote, P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 36.465278, longitude 34.154167
2. GeoNames: Kızkalesi - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 437794
36.46192 34.14199 P PPL TR 32 8632149 1742 9 Europe/Istanbul
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 9 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 36.25, 34.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 36.25, 34.25
36.25 34.25 Csa
Wikidata: Corycus
- Wikidata Q65077764, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
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