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[German version] [1] Name of two settlements (Κίλλα; Kílla, Lat. Cilla). There seem to have been at least two settlements of this name. One is mentioned in Hdt. 1,149; it was one of the eleven Aeolian cities, and, according to [1. 216f.], was not located in the Troad. The other is mentioned in the ‘Iliad’ (Hom. Il. 1,38; 452) and was supposedly located near Chryse and Thebe -- probably north-west of the bay of Adramytteum; an exact localization has not been possible as yet. Different from that was perhaps also the town of C. that, according to Dictys (2,13), had been destroyed by the Greeks under Achilles' leadership; this should be localized in the vicinity of Neandria and Colonae. It remains uncertain with which of the latter two C. the famous sanctuary of Apollo Killaios (Str. 13,1,6…