Pteria (Cappadocia)

Pteria (Ancient Greek: Πτερία) was the capital of the Leucosyri in northern Cappadocia.

They were said by Herodotus to have been taken and ruined by Croesus in 547 BCE.

[2] Its site is located near Kerkenes Dağ, Asiatic Turkey.

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The ruins of Pteria from the book " History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria (1903) "