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Percote

Western Asia

Percote, also called Perkote, was a town or city of ancient Mysia on the Asian side of the Hellespont, northeast of Troy. It appears several times in Greek mythology as the home of the seer Merops and sent a contingent to fight for Troy in the Trojan War, though by the time of the geographer Strabo the city no longer existed and its exact location on the Hellespont shore was already unknown. Its site has since been placed about four miles east of Umurbey in Asiatic Turkey.

Facts
Latitude
40.273913 degrees north 1
Longitude
26.588806 degrees east 1
Sources
1. Percote (Wikidata)
  • P625 (coordinate location)
    latitude 40.273913, longitude 26.588806
  • In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
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Wikidata: Percote
Wikidata Q3558595, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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