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🇺🇸 United States · Mound

Trempealeau Mounds

Early Mississippian (Stirling antecedent) · Cahokia Mississippian with Oneota interaction

Northernmost Cahokia-affiliated platform mounds (1050–1100 CE) on Mississippi bluffs — 500-km colony.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city

Soli-Pompeiopolis

Archaic to Medieval (c.700 BCE–1100 CE) · Rhodian → Persian → Hellenistic → Roman Cilician

Cilician harbour city with 1 km Corinthian colonnade and vast man-made basin re-founded by Pompey.