Phocaea

Definitions

1. An ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, now located in İzmir Province, Turkey; modern Foça.
2. 25 Phocaea, a main belt asteroid.

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Examples

“Theirs were the cities of Myus, and Priene, Colophon, Ephesus, Lebedus, Teos, Clazomene, Erythræ, Phocæa, and Miletus:—in the islands of Samos and Chios were two cities of the same name⟳ as the isles themselves.”

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