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Line 3: ==Geography== ~~It overlooks the [[Ghab valley]] and the~~The site is now partly occupied by the city of ''[[Dinar (District), Afyonkarahisar\|Dinar]]'' (sometimes locally known also as ''Geyikler'', "the gazelles," perhaps from a tradition of the Persian hunting-park, seen by [[Xenophon]] at Celaenae), which by 1911 was connected with [[İzmir]] by railway; there are considerable remains, including a theater and a great number of important [[Graeco-Roman]] inscriptions. [[Strabo]] (p. 577) says, that the town lies at the source (ekbolais) of the [[Marsyas]], and the river flows through the middle of the city, having its origin in the city, and being carried down to the suburbs with a violent and precipitous current it joins the [[Maeander]] after the latter is joined by the [[Orgas]] (called the Catarrhactes by [[Herodotus]], vii. 26).

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