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==Ancient olive press== [[File:Klazomenai.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Olive oil extraction workshop at Klazomenai]] [[Olive oil extraction]] installation (''işlik'') dating back to the third quarter of the 6th century BC uncovered in Klazomenai is the only surviving example of a level and weights press from an ancient Greek city and precedes by at least two centuries the next securely datable earliest presses found in Greece.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Koparal |first1=Elif |last2=İplikçi |first2=Ertan |chapter=Archaic Olive Oil Extraction Plant in Klazomenai |title=Klazomenai, Teos, and Abdera: Metropoleis and Colony. Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Archaeological Museum of Abdera, 20–21 October 2001 |pages=221–234 |location=Thessaloniki |date=2004 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece |chapter=Section 6.3.2 Figures |page=141 |isbn=978-0-19-815288-0 | author = Lin Foxhall | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | year= 2007 }}</ref> It was restored and reconstructed in 2004–2005 through collaboration between [[Ege University]], a Turkish olive-oil exporter and a [[Germany|German]] natural building components company, as well as by local artisans, on the basis of the clearly visible [[millstone]] with a cylindrical roller and three separation pits. The olive oil obtained turned out to be quite a success in business terms as well.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}} The reconstructed olive oil press is located on the original mainland site of Klazomenai, at {{coord|38|21|40.4|N|26|46|13.3|E|display=inline|type:landmark_region:TR}}.
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