Phocaea

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6.4.1853 00:00 Marseilles 5e24 43n18 observations 0


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Named after a maritime town of Ionia in Asia Minor with colonies in Italy, Spain, and France. Beset by the tyrant Haspages a group of the inhabitants built Massalia (Marseilles, see planet  (20)), sometimes designated Phocaica, about 600 B.C. (H 5; AN 36, 279 (1853)) _ _.


Discovered on 6-4-1853 in Marseilles by Chacornac, J.

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