Skip to content
Outdoor Pitstop logoOutdoor Pitstop
DownloadDownload the app

Attraction · Bandırma · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Dascylium in Bandırma

Dascylium is an attraction in Bandırma, Balıkesir. This place has a story in the app.

Directions in Google Maps
Dascylium in Bandırma
i
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5View the photo on Wikimedia Commons
Dascylium in Bandırma, photo 2
i
Photo: Mossmaps · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons
Dascylium in Bandırma, photo 3
i
Photo: Alborz fallah · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons

The story

Wikipedia ↗

Story · Dascylium

  • en
  • nl

You're standing at Daskyleion, near the little village of Ergili, about thirty kilometres from Bandırma and not far from Lake Manyas. Today it may look like a quiet hill with some excavations. But this was once the seat of one of the most powerful men in the Persian Empire.

Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).

Photos

3 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.

Dascylium in Bandırma
1 / 3
i
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5View the photo on Wikimedia Commons

Explore further

More points of interest

The free app

All of Outdoor Pitstop, in your pocket

Find the nearest pitstop, navigate there, listen to audio tours, earn XP and make routes and lists together.

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play (Coming soon)Coming soon
How Outdoor Pitstop works →
The map of the app with pitstops nearby
A pitstop in the app, with a photo, a review and Navigate
Your profile in the app, with level and XP