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Balıkesir Province
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Kyzikos

Cyzicus ( SIZ-ik-əs; Ancient Greek: Κύζικος, romanized: Kúzikos; was an ancient Greek town in Mysia in in the current of .
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient city of Mysia in modern-day Turkey
  • Also known as: “Cyzicus”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Edincik and Erdek.

Village
Photo: Kızıldeniz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 5 km south of Kyzikos.

Photo: serkany, CC BY 3.0.
is a town on the coast of Region in Turkey. It's the principal town on the Kapıdağ Peninsula, with a navy base and a straggling resort strip: in 2012 the district population was 32,958.

Village
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , located in , . As of 2022, the population is 44. is situated 9 km south of Kyzikos.

Kyzikos

Latitude
40.3871° or 40° 23′ 14″ north
Longitude
27.87137° or 27° 52′ 17″ east
Open location code
8GG99VPC+RG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13388465312
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q615449
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Ukrainian—“Kyzikos” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κύζικος”
  • Arabic: “سيزيكوس”
  • Arabic: “كيزيكوس”
  • Asturian: “Cyzicus”
  • Basque: “Ziziko”
  • Breton: “Kizikos”
  • Breton: “Kyzikos”
  • Bulgarian: “Кизик”
  • Bulgarian: “Кизикос”
  • Catalan: “Cízic”
  • Catalan: “Cyzicum”
  • Catalan: “Cyzicus”
  • Chinese: “基齐库斯”
  • Czech: “Kyzikos”
  • Dutch: “Cyzicus”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيزيكوس”
  • Estonian: “Cyzicus”
  • Estonian: “Kyzikos”
  • Finnish: “Cyzicus”
  • Finnish: “Kyzikos”
  • French: “Cyzique”
  • German: “Cyzicus”
  • German: “Kyzikos”
  • Greek: “Κύζικος”
  • Hebrew: “קיזיקוס”
  • Hungarian: “Küzikosz”
  • Indonesian: “Kizikos”
  • Italian: “Cizico”
  • Italian: “Cyzicus”
  • Japanese: “キジクス”
  • Japanese: “キジコス”
  • Japanese: “キュジコス”
  • Korean: “키지코스”
  • Latin: “Cyzicus”
  • Persian: “سیزیک”
  • Polish: “Kyzik”
  • Polish: “Kyzikos”
  • Portuguese: “Cízico”
  • Romanian: “Cizic”
  • Romanian: “Cyzic”
  • Russian: “Кизик”
  • Serbian: “Кизик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kizik”
  • Slovenian: “Kizik”
  • Spanish: “Cicico”
  • Spanish: “Cícico”
  • Spanish: “Cizico”
  • Spanish: “Cízico”
  • Spanish: “Kyzikos”
  • Swedish: “Cyzicus”
  • Swedish: “Kyzikos”
  • Turkish: “Belkıs”
  • Turkish: “Cyzicus”
  • Turkish: “Kizikos”
  • Turkish: “Kyzikos”
  • Ukrainian: “Кізик”
  • Ukrainian: “Кізік”
  • Ukrainian: “Кізікос”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Siege of Constantinople (674–678) and Cyzicus Hadrian Temple.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kyzikos”. Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.