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Percote

(Perkote). A very ancient city of Mysia, between Abydos and Lampsacus, near the Hellespont.

Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
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Percote

  Percote (Perkote: Eth. Perkosios), an ancient town of Mysia, on the Hellespont, between Abydos and Lampsacus, and probably on the little river Percotes. (Hom. Il. ii. 835, xi. 229; Xenoph. Hellen. v. 1. § 23.) Percote continued to exist long after the Trojan War, as it is spoken of by Herodotus (v. 117), Scylax (p. 35), Apollonius Rhodius (i. 932), Arrian (Anab. i. 13), Pliny (v. 32), and Stephanus Byz. (s. v.). Some writers mention it among the towns assigned to Themistocles by the king of Persia. (Plut. Them. 30; Athen. i. p. 29.) According to Strabo (xiii. p. 590) its ancient name had been Percope. Modern travellers are unanimous in identifying its site with Bergaz or Bergan, a small Turkish town on the left bank of a small river, situated on a sloping hill in a charming district. (Sibthorpe's Journal, in Walpole's Turkey, i. p. 91; Richter, Wallfahrten, p. 434.)

This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
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