🏛️ Kotiaion-Dorylaion
Roman settlement ruins in northwestern Anatolia
📌 Fast Facts
- Located near Eskişehir Province, northwestern Türkiye
- Hellenistic and Roman-period settlement, later Byzantine fortress
- Strategically positioned on major trade route between Europe and Asia
- Site exhibits structures from multiple historical periods
Kotiaion-Dorylaion represents a layered archaeological site in northwestern Anatolia that served as a settlement during the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. Located in present-day Türkiye near Eskişehir, the site occupies a strategically important position on ancient trade routes connecting the Mediterranean with Central Asia. The ruins reflect successive occupation and modification across centuries of regional political and economic change ...