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The Agora forms part of the city’s regular Hippodamian grid plan. In order to build a terrace 160 m. long, bordered on all sides by porticos, on sloping terrain, the lowest stories of the buildings to the north and west, which are still well preserved, are partially underground. Because a Byzantine and Ottoman cemetery was located here, the central part of the Agora remained free from modern constructions. The buildings one visits today date essentially to the Roman period, but there also exist many remains of the Hellenistic era.
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