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Merus

Μῆρος

Merus (Μῆρος), a town of Phrygia, which is mentioned only in the ecclesiastical writers as situated in Phrygia Salutaris, on the south-east of Cotyaeum. (Hierocl. p. 677; Socrat. Hist. Eccles. 3.15; Sozomen, 5.11; Constant. Porphyr. de Them. 1.4.) Some believe that the ruins near Dovaslán (commonly called Doganlu), of which Fellows heard (Discov. in Lycia, p. 134, &c.), belong to Merus. (Comp. Leake, Asia Minor, p. 24, &c.) [L.S]

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.