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Mount Pagus

Also known as Kadifekale

Mount Pagus, now Kadifekale, is the hill above the harbour of İzmir in western Turkey. Around 300 BCE Antigonus and Lysimachus refounded Smyrna on its slopes, and its summit carried the acropolis of the Hellenistic and Roman city. In the Middle Ages it held the upper citadel, which the Turks kept while the crusaders of 1344 held the harbour castle below.

Mount Pagus — Image: Mr. E. Unlu · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 2 state histories

Smyrna Crusader Smyrna

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Mount Pagus. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/mount-pagus
MLA: “Mount Pagus.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/mount-pagus. Accessed .
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