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Candara

Çankırı · Archaeological site

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Kind
Archaeological site
Province / district
Çankırı
Elevation
914 m
Wikidata
Q85750423

About

Candara or Kandara (Ancient Greek: Κάνδαρα) was a town of ancient Paphlagonia, inhabited from Achaemenid through Roman times. Stephanus of Byzantium writes that it was "in Paphlagonia, three schoeni from Gangra, and a village Thariba" and that a temple of Hera Candarene was there.

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