Founded in 334 BC by the Macedonians the city, close to the border of Phrygia and Lydia, was military town, that maintained its position in strategic importance throughout Hellenistic Roman and Byzantine.

The city's name at this time was Blaundos verified in 1845. W. J. Ulubey by Hamilton by finding an inscription in the ruins of the town that read "Blaundeo of the Macedonian (Macedonian Blaundus on)" The city fell to the Turks in the 12th century.

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