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Miletus-Balat Miletus is an ancient city which seems to have been inhabited by settlers between the end of the Minoan and the Mycenean periods.Miletus was sacked by the Persians under Darius in 494 B.C. and he massacred its inhabitants.It was captured again by Alexander the Great in 334 B.C. But rather than being destroyed by carnage or looting,its end,like Ephesus,came because its harbour silted up and its commerce stopped.Paul`s visit to Miletus came at the end of his 3rd journey as he was hurrying to get to Jerusalem by Pentecost. |