Celaenae

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Celaenae also Kelainai, an ancient city of Phrygia, situated on the great trade route to the East.

Its acropolis long held out against Alexander in 333 and surrendered to him at last by arrangement. His successor, Eumenes, made it for some time his headquarters, as did Antigonus until 301.

From Lysimachus it passed to Seleucus I Nicator, whose son Antiochus I Soter, seeing its geographical importance, refounded it on a more open site as Apamea. West of the acropolis were the palace of Xerxes I and the Agora, in or near which is the cavern whence the Marsyas, one of the sources of the Maeander, issues.

According to Xenophon, Cyrus had a palace and large park full of wild animals at Celaenae.

See: G Weber, Dineir-Celanes (1892).

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.