Klazomenai Archaeological Sitevisitor guide.

One of the twelve Ionian cities, Klazomenai is located at Limantepe, inhabited since 4000 BC, and was founded during the Iron Age. In the Geometric Period (900–650 BC), the residents of Klazomenai lived in apsidal and rectangular houses, enclosing their city with a defensive wall in the 7th century BC. Archaic settlement was disrupted around 546 BC by the Persian conquest, but under moderate Persian rule, inhabitants returned to the old settlement area around 525–520 BC. Olive oil workshops and expanding settlement reflect rising prosperity in the final quarter of the 6th century BC. Following the Ionian Revolt erupting in 499 BC, Klazomenai continued its existence as an island city on Karantina Island from the early 5th century BC onward. Subsequently, ideological and economic divisions led to dual settlement. In the first half of the 4th century BC, an anti-Athenian faction established a new grid-plan city named Chyton at Limantepe on the mainland. This mainland settlement was abandoned around 350 BC, after which the citizens used the mainland purely for agriculture while residing on Karantina Island. DOWNLOAD MUSEUM BROCHURE NEARBY MUSEUMS EPHESUS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE PERGAMON ACROPOLIS EPHESUS MUSEUM ST. JOHN SITE AGORA SITE EPHESUS TERRACE HOUSES