Editing Priene (section)

=== Territory ===
[[File:Miletus Bay silting evolution map-en.svg|thumb|right|Location of Priene at [[Büyük Menderes River|Maeander River]]'s mouth]]
In the 4th century BCE, Priene was a deep-water port with two harbours overlooking the Bay of Miletus<ref>This article uses this term in preference to the Gulf of Latmus, which remains as Lake Bafa. In ancient times they were continuous.</ref> and, somewhat further east, the marshes of the Maeander Delta. Between the ocean and steep Mycale, agricultural resources were limited. Priene's territory likely included a part of the Maeander Valley, needed to support the city. Claiming much of Mycale, it had borders on the north with [[Ephesus]] and Thebes, a small state on Mycale.

Priene was a small city-state of 6000 persons living in a constrained space of only {{convert|15|ha}}. The walled area had an extent of {{convert|20|ha}} to {{convert|37|ha}}. The population density of its residential district has been estimated at 166 persons per hectare, living in about 33 homes per hectare (13 per acre) arranged in compact city blocks.<ref>Hansen (2004), pages 14–16, estimates the walled area as 1.33 to 2 times a measured habitation area of {{convert|15|ha}}. Rubinstein (2004), pages 1091–1093, gives a slightly larger measure of the walled area: {{convert|37|ha}}. Hansen (2004), pages 14–16, estimates 8 persons per house for 500 counted houses and a ratio of 2:1 of urban over rural.</ref> The entire space within the walls offered not much more space and privacy: the density was 108 persons per hectare. All the public buildings were within walking distance, except that walking must have been an athletic event due to the vertical components of the distances.