Zeugma

Gaziantep Province · Turkey

Zeugma, Turkey
Photo: Uçanrakun1900, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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An ancient city founded by a general of Alexander the Great where the Euphrates was crossed by a pontoon bridge. It is famed for the exceptionally preserved Roman-era floor mosaics rescued before the site was partly flooded by a dam reservoir.

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