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•Lake
Uluabat : (Apollonias lake ad Rhyndacum), on its shores,
very important because was along main trade routes. Today, Mustafakemalpasa (was Kirmaste)
•Apollonia ad R. was along the
river, today Apolyont. The lake was called
Apolloniatis. The town remains
are small. Many small islands, one is called St. Constantine, there was a
monastery, its ruins include an inscribed cross with apses to east and west.
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•The lost Delphic
inscription with the commandments of Sosiadou (one of the Seven Sages) were found in Miletopolis and also at AiKhanoum in Afghanistan
•Moudanya (Mudanya)area : Kursunlu monastery
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•Zeytinbagi (= olive yard) Triglia
•Triglia = red mullet or Tri + ilya = 3 priests
•Ayion Theodoron church (Fatih camii)
•Taz Mektep – monastery from
early 1900s
•Ruins of Byzantine
churches
•Famous for olives
•Shipowner Filippos Kavounides born here
•People migrated to Rafina
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