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ANTANDROS (Ancient city) TURKEY
(Hdt. 7.42.1)
KARIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
As for the Leleges, some conjecture that they are the same as the Carians, and others that they were only fellow inhabitants and fellow soldiers of these; and this, they say, is why, in the territory of Miletus, certain settlements are called settlements of the Leleges, and why, in many places in Caria, tombs of the Leleges and deserted forts, known as Lelegian forts, are so called.
(Ionians) after the return of the Heracleidae they were driven out by the Achaeans and went back again to Athens; and from there they sent forth with the Codridae the Ionian colony to Asia, and these founded twelve cities on the seaboard of Caria and Lydia, thus dividing themselves into the same number of parts as the cities they had occupied in the Peloponnesus.
ALIKARNASSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The Rhodians, like the people of Halicarnassus and Cnidus and Cos, are Dorians; for of the Dorians who founded Megara after the death of Codrus, some remained there, others took part with Althaemenes the Argive in the colonization of Crete, and others were distributed to Rhodes and to the cities just now mentioned. But these events are later than those mentioned by Homer, for Cnidus and Halicarnassus were not yet in existence, although Rhodes and Cos were; but they were inhabited by Heracleidae.
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EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Now these Ionians possessed the Panionion, and of all men whom we know, they happened to found their cities in places with the loveliest of climate and seasons. For neither to the north of them nor to the south does the land effect the same thing as in Ionia [nor to the east nor to the west], affected here by the cold and wet, there by the heat and drought. They do not all have the same speech but four different dialects. Miletus lies farthest south among them, and next to it come Myus and Priene; these are settlements in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia, have a language in common which is wholly different from the speech of the three former cities.
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Mysomakedones (Musomakedones), a tribe of the Mysians, probably occupying the district about the sources of the small river Mysius. (Ptol. v. 2. § 15; Plin. v. 31.) In the time of the Romans this tribe belonged to the conventus of Ephesus; but further particulars are not known of them.
ENOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Apsinthii or Apsynthii (Apsinthioi, Apsunthioi), a people of Thrace, bordering
on the Thracian Chersonesus. (Herod. vi. 34, ix. 119.) The city of Aenus was also
called Apsynthus (Steph. B. s. vv. Ainos, Apsunthos); and Dionysius Periegetes
(577) speaks of a river of the same name.
ERYTHRES (Ancient city) TURKEY
Named after Lycus, come from Crete, army of, restores Proetus to Argolis, lay an ambush for Bellerophon, at war with Cilix, Trojan allies, their kings of Ionia, their resistance to the Medes, tribute to Persia, in Xerxes' army.
Islanders originally, the chief people in the Minoan empire, friends of Minos.
There are yet three Ionian cities, two of them situated on the islands of Samos and Chios, and one, Erythrae, on the mainland; the Chians and Erythraeans speak alike
FASILIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis
FOKEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
The greatest and most famous and most visited precinct is that which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene.
They lived in a place of the country which capital was Agyra.
They lived in a place of the country which capital was Pessinounta.
KERASSOUS (Ancient city) PONTOS
Mosynoeci, Mossynoeci, Mosyni, Mossyni (Mosunoikoi, Mossunoikoi, mossunoi,
Mossunoi), a tribe on the coast of Pontus, occupying the district between the
Tibareni and Macrones, and containing the towns of Cerasus and Pharnacia. The
Mosynoeci were a brave and warlike people, but are at the same time said to have
been the rudest and most uncivilised among all the tribes of Asia Minor. Many
of their peculiar customs are noticed by the Greeks, who planted colonies in their
districts. They are said to have lived on trees and in towers. (Strab. xii. p.
549.) Their kings, it is said, were elected by the people, and dwelt in an isolated
tower rising somewhat above the houses of his subjects, who watched his proceedings
closely, and provided him with all that was necessary; but when he did anything
that displeased them, they stopped their supplies, and left him to die of starvation.
(Xen. Anab. v. 4. 26; Apollon. Rhod. ii. 1027; Diod. xiv. 30; Scymnus, Fragm.
166.) They used to cut off the heads of the enemies they had slain, and carry
them about amid dances and songs. (Xen. Anab. iv. 4. 17; v. 40 § 15.) It is also
related that they knew nothing of marriage (Xen. Anab. v. 4. 33; Diod. l. c.),
and that they generally tattooed their bodies. Eating and drinking was their greatest
happiness, whence the children of the wealthy among them were regularly fattened
with salt dolphins and chestnuts, until they were as thick as they were tall (Xen.
Anab. v. 4. 32). Their arms consisted of heavy spears, six cubits in length, with
round or globular handles; large shields of wicker-work covered with ox-hides
; and leather or wooden helmets, the top of which was adorned with a crest of
hair. (Xen. l. c., v. 4. § 12 ; Herod. vii. 78.) The fourth chapter of the fifth
book of Xenophon's Anabasis is full of curious information about this singular
people. (Comp. also Strab. xi. p. 528; Hecat. Fragm. 193; Steph. B. s. v.; Herod.
iii. 94; Scylax, p. 33.; Amm. Marc. xxii. 8 ; Orph. Argon. 740; Mela, i. 19; Tibull.
iv. 1. 146; Curtius, vi. 4, 17; Plin. vi. 4; Val. Flacc. v. 152; Dionys. Per.
766.)
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KILIKIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Clitae, a Cilician people who are mentioned by Tacitus (Ann. vi. 41)
as subjects of a Cappadocian Archelaus, in the time of Tiberius. This Archelaus
appears to have been a king of, Cilicia Trachea, certainly not the last king of
Cappadocia, for he was dead before the time to which Tacitus refers in the passage
cited above. The Clitae refused to submit to the regulations of the Roman census,
and to pay taxes, and retired to the heights of Taurus. There they successfully
resisted the king, until M. Trebellius was sent by Vitellius, the governor of
Syria, who blockaded them in their hill forts, Cadra and Davara, and compelled
them to surrender. In the reign of Claudius the Clitae again fortified themselves
on the mountains, under a leader Trosobores, whence they descended to the coast
and the towns, plundering the cultivators, townspeople, shipmasters, and merchants.
They besieged the town of Anemurium, a place probably near the promontory, from
which and the other circumstances we collect that the Clitae were a nation in
Cilicia Trachea. At last Antiochus, who was king of this coast, by pleasing the
common sort and cajoling the leader, succeeded in putting Trosobores and a few
of the chiefs to death, and pacified the rest by his mild measures. (Tac. Ann.
xii. 55.)
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KIOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Bebryces (Bebrukes, their country Bebrukia). A nation on the Pontus
in Asia. Stephanus (s. v. Busnaioi) also mentions the Bysnaei as a tribe of Bebryces.
Strabo (p. 295) supposes the Bebryces to have been of Thracian stock, and that
their first place of settlement in Asia was Mysia. Dionysius Periegetes (805;
and see the commentary of Eustathius) places the Bebryces where the river Cius
enters the Propontus, that is, about the Gulf of Cius. Eratosthenes (Plin. v.
30) enumerates the Bebryces among the Asiatic nations that had perished. In fact,
the Bebryces belong to mythology rather than to history.
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KLAZOMENES (Ancient city) TURKEY
Settle at Clazomenae.
The greatest and most famous and most visited precinct is that which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene.
KNIDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The Rhodians, like the people of Halicarnassus and Cnidus and Cos, are Dorians; for of the Dorians who founded Megara after the death of Codrus, some remained there, others took part with Althaemenes the Argive in the colonization of Crete, and others were distributed to Rhodes and to the cities just now mentioned. But these events are later than those mentioned by Homer, for Cnidus and Halicarnassus were not yet in existence, although Rhodes and Cos were; but they were inhabited by Heracleidae.
KOLOFON (Ancient city) TURKEY
Now these Ionians possessed the Panionion, and of all men whom we know, they happened to found their cities in places with the loveliest of climate and seasons. For neither to the north of them nor to the south does the land effect the same thing as in Ionia [nor to the east nor to the west], affected here by the cold and wet, there by the heat and drought. They do not all have the same speech but four different dialects. Miletus lies farthest south among them, and next to it come Myus and Priene; these are settlements in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia, have a language in common which is wholly different from the speech of the three former cities.
KYZIKOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer): book 1, chapter 9, section 18
Dolionis (Dolionis: Eth. Doliones). Stephanus B. (s. v. Doliones)
describes the Doliones as the inhabitants of Cyzicus, and he adds that Hecataeus
called them Dolieis: they were also called Dolionii.
The Doliones (Strab. p. 575) are, a people about Cyzicus who extended
from the river Aesepus to the Rhyndacus and the lake Dascylitis. The names Dolionis
and Doliones are connected with the earliest traditions about Cyzicus; and in
Strabo's time the Cyziceni had the Dolionis. Strabo found it hard to fix the limits
of the Bithynians, the Mysians, the Phrygians, as well as of the Doliones, those
about Cyzicus; and we cannot do more than he did. Apollonius Rhodius (Arg. i.
947) doubtless followed an old tradition when he described the Doliones as occupying
the isthmus, by which he means the isthmus of Cyzicus, and the plain, which is
probably the plain on the mainland; and here, he says, reigned Cyzicus, a son
of Aeneas.
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LEVEDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Now these Ionians possessed the Panionion, and of all men whom we know, they happened to found their cities in places with the loveliest of climate and seasons. For neither to the north of them nor to the south does the land effect the same thing as in Ionia [nor to the east nor to the west], affected here by the cold and wet, there by the heat and drought. They do not all have the same speech but four different dialects. Miletus lies farthest south among them, and next to it come Myus and Priene; these are settlements in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia, have a language in common which is wholly different from the speech of the three former cities.
MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Now these Ionians possessed the Panionion, and of all men whom we know, they happened to found their cities in places with the loveliest of climate and seasons. For neither to the north of them nor to the south does the land effect the same thing as in Ionia [nor to the east nor to the west], affected here by the cold and wet, there by the heat and drought. They do not all have the same speech but four different dialects. Miletus lies farthest south among them, and next to it come Myus and Priene; these are settlements in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia, have a language in common which is wholly different from the speech of the three former cities.
Pherecydes says concerning this seaboard that Miletus and Myus and the parts round Mycale and Ephesus were in earlier times occupied by Carians, and that the coast next thereafter, as far as Phocaea and Chios and Samos, which were ruled by Ancaeus, was occupied by Leleges, but that both were driven out by the Ionians and took refuge in the remaining parts of Caria.
MYKALI (Cape) TURKEY
Pherecydes says concerning this seaboard that Miletus and Myus and the parts round Mycale and Ephesus were in earlier times occupied by Carians, and that the coast next thereafter, as far as Phocaea and Chios and Samos, which were ruled by Ancaeus, was occupied by Leleges, but that both were driven out by the Ionians and took refuge in the remaining parts of Caria.
MYOUS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Now these Ionians possessed the Panionion, and of all men whom we know, they happened to found their cities in places with the loveliest of climate and seasons. For neither to the north of them nor to the south does the land effect the same thing as in Ionia [nor to the east nor to the west], affected here by the cold and wet, there by the heat and drought. They do not all have the same speech but four different dialects. Miletus lies farthest south among them, and next to it come Myus and Priene; these are settlements in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia, have a language in common which is wholly different from the speech of the three former cities.
Pherecydes says concerning this seaboard that Miletus and Myus and the parts round Mycale and Ephesus were in earlier times occupied by Carians, and that the coast next thereafter, as far as Phocaea and Chios and Samos, which were ruled by Ancaeus, was occupied by Leleges, but that both were driven out by the Ionians and took refuge in the remaining parts of Caria.
MYSIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
(Musomakedones), a tribe of the Mysians, probably occupying the district about
the sources of the small river Mysius. (Ptol. v. 2. § 15; Plin. v. 31.) In the
time of the Romans this tribe belonged to the conventus of Ephesus; but further
particulars are not known of them.
Becheires (Becheires, Becheiroi), a barbarous tribe on the coast of the Pontus (Apoll. Rhod. ii. 396, 1246; Dionys. Perieg. 765), mentioned with the Macrones, and as east of the Macrones. Scylax, following the coast from east to west, names the Becheires, and then the Macrocephali, supposed by Cramer to be the Macrones; but Pliny (vi. 3) distinguishes the Macrones and Macrocephali. Pliny's enumeration of names often rather confuses than helps us; and it is difficult to say where he places the Becheires. But we might infer from Pliny and Mela (i. 19) that they were west of Trapezus, and east of the Thermodon.
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Macrones (Makrones), a powerful tribe in the east of Pontus, about the Moschici mountains. They are described as wearing garments made of hair, and as using in war wooden helmets, small shields of wicker-work, and short lances with long points. (Herod. ii. 104, vii. 78; Xenoph. Anab. iv. 8. § 3, v. 5. § 18, vii. 8. § 25; comp. Hecat. Fragm. 191; Scylax, p. 33; Dionys. Perieg. 766; Apollon. Rhod. ii. 22; Plin. vi. 4; Joseph. c. Apion. i. § 22, who asserts that they observed the custom of circumcision.) Strabo (xii. p. 548) remarks, in passing, that the people formerly called Macrones bore in his day the name of Sanni, though Pliny (l. c.) speaks of the Sanni and Macrones as two distinct peoples. They appear to have always been a rude and wild tribe, until civilisation and Christianity were introduced among them in the reign of Justinian. (Procop. Bell. Pers. i. 15, Bell. Goth. iv. 2, de Aed. iii. 6.)
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Mares, a tribe on the coast of Pontus, in the neighbourhood of the Mosynoeci.
(Hecat. Fragm. 192; Herod. iii. 94.) Their armour, when serving in the army of
Xerxes, is described by Herodotus (vii. 79) as having consisted of helmets of
wicker-work, leather shields, and javelins. Later writers do not mention this
tribe.
Coraxi (Koraxoi, Aristot. Meteor. i. 13; Hecat. Fragm. 185; Steph.
B. s. v.; Mela, i. 19, iii. 5; Scylax) p. 31; Plin. vi. 5. s. 5), a tribe of Pontus
to the NW. of Colchis, and close to the outlying spurs of the Caucasus. They probably
occupied the western bank of the Corax in the neighbourhood of Dioscurias. In
the same district, according to Stephanus, was Coraxicus Murus and Coraxica Regio.
PRIINI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Now these Ionians possessed the Panionion, and of all men whom we know, they happened to found their cities in places with the loveliest of climate and seasons. For neither to the north of them nor to the south does the land effect the same thing as in Ionia [nor to the east nor to the west], affected here by the cold and wet, there by the heat and drought. They do not all have the same speech but four different dialects. Miletus lies farthest south among them, and next to it come Myus and Priene; these are settlements in Caria, and they have a common language; Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedos, Teos, Clazomenae, Phocaea, all of them in Lydia, have a language in common which is wholly different from the speech of the three former cities.
TEOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The greatest and most famous and most visited precinct is that which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene.
TROAS (Ancient country) TURKEY
Cilices (Kilikes), they are mentioned in the Iliad as the inhabitants
of the part of Mysia called Troas. Eetion, the father of Andromache, Hector's
wife, lived beneath wooded Placos; and his chief city was Thebe Hypoplacie. (Il.
vi. 395, 415.) He was king of the Cilices. Strabo observes that Homer makes Pelasgi
border on these Cilices, for he mentions Larissa as one of the cities of the Pelasgi
(Il. ii. 840). In another passage (pp. 586, 611) he divides the territory of these
Cilices into two parts, one the Thebaice, and the other Lyrnessis; and he makes
the territory of the Cilices comprehend the territories of Adramyttium, Atarneus,
and Pitane, and extend to the mouth of the Caicus. It seems to have been the opinion
of some of the Greek critics that the Cilices of Homer were akin to the other
Cilices; for Strabo observes, they say that in the tract between Phaselis in Lycia
and Attalia there are pointed out a Thebe and Lyrnessus, a part of the Troic Cilices
who were ejected from the plain of Thebe having gone to Pamphylia, as Callisthenes
has said. Whether Callisthenes stated the emigration of these Cilicians and the
existence of these cities as a fact, or as report, seems somewhat doubtful. The
passage, perhaps, means that there was a story that ruins were pointed out in
these parts, which had the names of Thebe and Lyrnessus. But it was a disputed
question which of the two Cilices were the parent stock; for while some pointed
to places in Cilicia as evidence of an emigration of Cilicians from the Troad,
as in Pamphylia they referred to a Thebe and Lyrnessus, others turned the argument
the other way, and referred to an Aleian plain also in the Troad. The discussion
in Strabo is not very profitable reading. There was, however, a tradition that
these Troic Cilicians drove the Syri from the country afterwards called Cilicia.
There is no doubt that Cilicia was once occupied by an Aramaic race, but it cannot
be determined whether the Cilices of Cilicia in the historical period derived
their name from some Cilices who invaded their country from the west, or whether
it was the name of the earliest known inhabitants of the country.
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VITHYNIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
The original inhabitants of Bithynia, which was also called Bebrycia, from Bebryce, a daughter of Danaus.
The Bebryces were submitted to the Bithynians, a Thracian tribe, who conquered their land.
They were a Thracian tribe that conquered the country.
They lived to the NE of the country and were not submitted to the Bithynians, when they conquered the country.
Mariandyni (Mariandunoi, Mariandenoi, or Maruandunoi), an ancient and celebrated tribe in the north-east of Bithynia, between the rivers Sangarius and Billaeus, on the east of the tribe called Thyni or Bithyni. (Scylax, p. 34; Plin. vi. 1.) According to Scylax, they did not extend as far west as the Sangarius, for according to him the river Hypius formed the boundary between the Bithyni and Mariandyni. Strabo (vii. p. 295) expresses a belief that the Mariandyni were a branch of the Bithynians, a belief to which he was probably led by the resemblance between their names, and which cannot be well reconciled with the statement of Herodotus (iii. 90), who clearly distinguishes the Mariandyni from the Thracians or Thyni in Asia. In the Persian army, also, they appear quite separated from the Bithyni, and their armour resembles that of the Paphlagonians, which was quite different from that of the Bithyni. (Herod. vii. 72, 75; comp. Strab. vii. p. 345, xii. p. 542.) The chief city in their territory was Heraclea Pontica, the inhabitants of which reduced the Mariandyni, for a time, to a state of servitude resembling that of the Cretan Mnoae, or the Thessalian Penestae. To what race they belonged is uncertain, though if their Thracian origin be given up, it must probably be admitted that they were akin to the Paphlagonians. In the division of the Persian empire they formed part of the third Persian satrapy. Their country was called Mariandynia (Mariandunia, Steph. B. s. v.), and Pliny speaks of a Sinus Mariandynus on their coast. (Comp. Hecat. Fragm. 201; Aeschyl. Pers. 932; Xen. Anab. vi, 4. § 4, Cyrop. i. 1. § 4; Ptol. v. 1. § 11; Scymn. Fragm. 199; Dionys. Perieg. 788; Mela, i. 19; Athen. xiv. p. 620; Apollon. Argon. ii. 724; Constant. Porph. Them. i. 7.)
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Pherecydes says concerning this seaboard that Miletus and Myus and the parts round Mycale and Ephesus were in earlier times occupied by Carians, and that the coast next thereafter, as far as Phocaea and Chios and Samos, which were ruled by Ancaeus, was occupied by Leleges, but that both were driven out by the Ionians and took refuge in the remaining parts of Caria.
FOKEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Pherecydes says concerning this seaboard that Miletus and Myus and the parts round Mycale and Ephesus were in earlier times occupied by Carians, and that the coast next thereafter, as far as Phocaea and Chios and Samos, which were ruled by Ancaeus, was occupied by Leleges, but that both were driven out by the Ionians and took refuge in the remaining parts of Caria.
LYKIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
MAGNESIA ON MEANDROS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The Magnetans are thought to be descendants of Delphians who settled in the Didyman hills, in Thessaly .. Here was also the temple of Dindymene, Mother of the gods. According to tradition, the wife of Themistocles, some say his daughter, served as a priestess there. But the temple is not now in existence, because the city has been transferred to another site.
KOLOFON (Ancient city) TURKEY
The Colophonians once possessed notable naval and cavalry forces, in which latter they were so far superior to the others that wherever in wars that were hard to bring to an end, the cavalry of the Colophonians served as ally, the war came to an end; whence arose the proverb, "he put Colophon to it," which is quoted when a sure end is put to any affair.
TEOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The waters along the coast of Mt. Corycus, they say, were everywhere the haunt of pirates, the Corycaeans, as they are called, who had found a new way of attacking vessels; for, they say, the Corycaeans would scatter themselves among the harbors, follow up the merchants whose vessels lay at anchor in them, and overhear what cargoes they had aboard and whither they were bound, and then come together and attack the merchants after they had put to sea and plunder their vessels; and hence it is that we call every person who is a busybody and tries to overhear private and secret conversations a Corycaean; and that we say in a proverb: ‘Well then, the Corycaean was listening to this,’
when one thinks that he is doing or saying something in secret, but fails to keep it hidden because of persons who spy on him and are eager to learn what does not concern them.
ALYVI (Ancient city) ALIZONES
A people of Bithynia, with a capital city Alybe (Il. ii. 856).
EOLIS (Ancient country) TURKEY
Aeoles or Aeolii. One of the chief branches of the Hellenic race, and supposed to be descended from Aeolus, son of Hellen. They originally lived in Thessaly, subsequently spread over various parts of Greece, and also settled in Aeolis in Asia Minor, and in Lesbos
FOKEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Join Ionian emigration to Asia.
GALATIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Country of, formerly called Celts, defeat Ptolemy Thunderbolt, invade Greece, their cavalry, Gauls at Thermopylae, at war with Aetolians, attack Delphi but are repulsed, cross to Asia, ravage Ionia, defeated in Mysia by Attalus I., king of Pergamus, repulsed from Celaenae in Phrygia, occupy Galatia, mercenary Gauls plot to seize Egypt, but are put to death, Gallic mercenaries of Antigonus defeated by Pyrrhus.
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 20/4/2001: 765 for Gauls, 137 for Celts, 1 for Galates, 51 for Galatians.
KAPADOKIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Leucosyri (Leukosnroi), the ancient name of the Syrians inhabiting
Cappadocia, by which they were distinguished from the more southern Syrians, who
were of a darker complexion. (Herod. i. 72, vii. 72; Strab. xvi. p. 737; Plin.
H. N. vi. 3; Eustath. ad Dionys. 772, 970.) They also spread over the western
parts of Pontus, between the rivers Iris and Halys. In the time of Xenophon (Anab.
v. 6. § 8, &c.) they were united with Paphlagonia, and governed by a Paphlagonian
prince, who is said to have had an army of 120,000 men, mostly horsemen. This
name was often used by the Greeks, even at the time when it had become customary
to designate all the inhabitants of the country by their native, or rather Persian
name, Cappadoces ; but it was applied more particularly to the inhabitants of
the coast district on the Euxine, between the rivers Halys and Iris. (Hecat. Fragm.
194, 200,. 350; Marcian. Heracl. p. 72.) Ptolemy (v. 6. § 2) also applies the
name exclusively to the inhabitants about the Iris, and treats of their country
as a part of the province of Cappadocia. The Leucosyri were regarded as colonists,
who had been planted there during the early conquests of the Assyrians, and were
successively subject to Lydia, Persia, and Macedonia; but after the time of Alexander
their name is scarcely mentioned, the people having become entirely amalgamated
with the nations among which they lived.
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
KARIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Islanders originally, the chief people in the Minoan empire, friends of Minos, former inhabitants of Miletus, and of Myus and Priene, their inventions of armour, attacked by the Persians, subdued, Carian settlers in Egypt, Apries' Carian guard, Carian tribute to Persia, a Carian warrior in the Cyprian revolt, Carian revolt against Darius, subdued, Carians in Xerxes' fleet, Carian language not understood by Greeks, so-called "Ionian" dress really Carian, Trojan allies, driven from Clarus by Thebans, and from Lebedus by Ionians, settle in Chios.
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 21/5/2001: 186 for Carians, 14 for Karians.
KNIDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Honour Aphrodite above all gods, attempt to cut through their isthmus, colonise Liparaean islands, their offerings at Delphi, treasury at Delphi, dedicate Clubroom (Lesche) at Delphi.
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 6/6/2001: 31 for Cnidians, 13 for Knidians.
KOLOFON (Ancient city) TURKEY
Sacrifice black female puppy to Wayside Goddess, dedicate statue at Olympia.
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 18/5/2001: 23 for Colophonians, 2 for Kolophonians.
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 30/5/2001: 20 for Cymaeans, 1 for Kymaians.
LYDIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Termilae (Termilai) is said to have been the ancient name of the inhabitants of
Lydia, before the name Lydi came into use. These Termilae were believed to have
come from Crete; and even in the time of Herodotus the Lydians were often called
Termilae by the neighbouring nations. (Herod. i. 173, vii. 92; Paus. i. 19. §
4.)
LYKIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Named after Lycus, come from Crete, army of, restores Proetus to Argolis, lay an ambush for Bellerophon, at war with Cilix, Trojan allies, their kings of Ionia, their resistance to the Medes, tribute to Persia, in Xerxes' army.
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 21/5/2001: 157 for Lycians, 19 for Lykians, 9 for Termilae, 3 for Termilai.
TROY (Ancient city) TURKEY
Also called Teucrians, their denial of the possession of Helen, Paeonians, and Gergithes, descended from them; Teucrian invasion of Europe before the Trojan war, refuse to restore Helen, besieged by the Greeks, joined by allies, chase the Greeks within their wall, flee before Patroclus, chased by Achilles, judge in the competition for the arms of Achilles, many slain by Neoptolemus, drag the Wooden Horse into Troy, slain by the Greeks, people of Tenea claim to be Trojans.
Perseus Project Index. Total results on 7/5/2001: 1000 for Trojans, 48 for Teucrians.
VITHYNIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Strymonii (Strumonioi), the name by which, according to tradition, the Bithynians
in Asia originally were called, because they had immigrated into Asia from the
country about the Strymon in Europe. (Herod. vii. 75; Steph. B. s. v. Strumon.)
Pliny (v. 40) further states that Bithynia was called by some Strymonis.
EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Evangelus, (Euangelos), the bearer of good news. Under this name the shepherd Pixodarus had a sanctuary at Ephesus, where he enjoyed heroic honours, because he had found a quarry of beautiful marble, of which the Ephesians built a temple. (Vitruv. x. 7.)
FOKEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Goddesses at Phocaea.
FRYGIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Berecynthia (Berekunthia), a surname of Cybele, which she derived either from
mount Berecynthus, or from a fortified place of that name in Phrygia, where she
was particularly worshipped. Mount Berecynthus again derived its name from Berecynthus,
a priest of Cybele. (Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 246; Serv. ad Aen. ix. 82, vi. 785;
Strab. x.; Plut. de Flum. 10.)
HERAKLIA OF PONTOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Idmon. The son of Apollo and of Asterie, daughter of Coronus; a seer
who took part in the Argonautic expedition, although he foresaw that it would
lead to his own death. He was killed by a wild boar in the land of the Mariandyni,
in Bithynia, and was worshipped as a hero by the inhabitants of the town of Heraclea
in Pontus, which was built around his grave by command of Apollo.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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