Knidos

Knidos

Knidos ranks 4,107th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Las Cruces, New Mexico, Hertfordshire, and Nanning. Memorable people born in Knidos include Eudoxus of Cnidus, Ctesias, and Sostratus of Cnidus. Memorable people who died in Knidos include Eudoxus of Cnidus, and Ctesias. Knidos has been the birth place of many mathematicians, and physicians and the death place of many mathematicians, and physicians. Knidos is located in Türkiye.

Knidos or Cnidus was a Greek city in ancient Caria and part of the Dorian Hexapolis, in south-western Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey. It was situated on the Datça peninsula, which forms the southern side of the Sinus Ceramicus, now known as Gulf of Gökova. By the 4th century BC, Knidos was located at the site of modern Tekir, opposite Triopion Island. But earlier, it was probably at the site of modern Datça. Read more on Wikipedia