Pteria
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Pteria may refer to:
  • Pteria (Turkey)
    Pteria (Turkey)
    Pteria was the capital of the Assyrians in northern Cappadocia. They were said by Herodotus to have been taken and ruined by Croesus in 547 BC. It also was the place of an undecided battle between Cyrus the Great and Croesus....

     a town in ancient Cappadocia (in modern Turkey)
  • Pteria (genus) a genus of bivalve molluscs, the winged oysters
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