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Tripolis Ancient City
Tripolis Ancient City (Tripolis Antik Kenti), founded on the banks of the Büyük Menderes River, in the north east of Lykos (Çürüksu) Plain, is located within the boundaries of the Buldan district in Denizli province today. The first name of the city founded at the intersection of Phrygia, Caria and Lydian Regions in the Hellenistic Period was Apollonia and for a short period of time, it was called Antoniopolis. Due to the settlement of the people of three regions in the 1st century BCE, it was named Tripolis. Tripolis, numbered among the richest cities in the region with its establishment and urbanism, lived its most magnificent era in the Roman Period. Public buildings such as the theater, stadium, bath, Gymnasium, Nymphaeum, agora and other buildings belonging to civil architecture in the ancient city contain important information that carries the relationship of people with nature, environment, urban planning, aesthetics and architecture in ancient times.
