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The Western Gate street in Ancient Priene, Turkey Royalty Free Stock Photo

The City is one of the twelve Ionian city. According to Plato, the city is the city where the moonlight shines most beautifully. Priene, one of the world`s first known grid-planned, hippodamos city. It is the most beautiful example of old city planning. The city was built with the grid system developed by the architect of Miletus hippodamos. The architect of the Priene Athene Temple is Pythius, who designed the Halicarnassus Mozeles, one of the seven wonders of the world. Bias, one of the Seven Sages of antiquity, grew up here.