Koroba:   Also known as "The Towers of the Morning," this city was once destroyed but has long since been rebuilt. Found high in the northern latitudes of Gor, NW of Ar and one thousand pasangs from the Sardar Mountains and described as a city of lofty cylinders, set among rolling green hills. It is a cultural center similar to Ar, but its citizenry is known for their fierce love of independence.

The city produces many excellent Warriors. It is somewhat similar to the city of Athens during the Hellenistic Period of ancient Greece, on Earth. Ko-ro-ba is in a perpetual state of semi-war with the city of Treve..

 

Ko-ro-ba as the Towers of the Morning
The actual word Ko-ro-ba itself,
more prosaically, is simply an expression in archaic Gorean
referring to a village market.

 

Ko-ro-ba lay in the midst of green and rolling hills, some hundreds of feet above the level of the distant Tamber Gulf and that mysterious body of water beyond it, spoken of in Gorean simply as Thassa, the Sea.

Ko-ro-ba was not set as high and remote as for example was Thentis in the mountains of Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, but it was not a city of the vast plains either, like the luxurious metropolis of Ar, or of the shore, like the cluttered, crowded, sensuous Port Kar on the Tamber Gulf. Whereas Ar was glorious, a city of imposing grandeur, acknowledged even by its blood foes; whereas Thentis had the proud violence of the rude mountains of Thentis for its setting; whereas Port Kar could boast the broad Tamber for her sister, and the gleaming, mysterious Thassa beyond, I thought my city to be truly the most beautiful, its variegated lofty cylinders rising so gently, so joyfully, among the calm, green hills.

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