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Didyma’s ancient ruins are 20 kilometres (32 miles) from Miletos, in Didim town within Aydin Province. Didyma, is not however an ancient city. It was an oracle center. Didyma’s fame rests on the magnificent Temple of Apollo, a building of awesome scale and in very good condition today. For a hundred years during the Archaic period the Temple was controlled by the Branchids, a powerful family of priests, and it was under their direction that the Temple rose to fame.
Priene was one of the twelve cities of the Pan-Ionian League and it is located approximately 10km north of Meander (Menderes) river. The Priene ancient city had a population 5,000 people, it was situated just at the point where the where the Meander River ran onto the Aegean. Because of the silt that had been carried by the river and filled up the sea, now the ancient city is 16km inland from the Aegean sea.
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