Listed 11 sub titles with search on: Homeric world for wider area of: "VITHYNIA Ancient country TURKEY" .
ALYVI (Ancient city) ALIZONES
Alybe was a city in Pontus, from where the Greeks were supplied with silver (Il. 2.857). The inhabitants were called Halizones, which means "surrounded by sea". Strabo (12,3,19-20 & 14,5,22-4) considers that Alybe is the most ancient name of the country of the Chalybes (later Chaldaeoi), from where the Greeks were provided with metals at first.
VITHYNIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
They lived in Asia Minor and were allies of the Trojans (Il. 10.429, 20.329).
The name of peoples both in Greece and Asia, who had disappeared at later times. The Caucones in Asia Minor are mentioned by Homer as allies of the Trojans, and are placed in Bithynia and Paphlagonia by the geographers.
A river in Bithynia (Il. 3.187, 16.719).
(Sangarios), Sangaris (Sangaris), or Sagaris (Sagaris). Now Sakariyeh. The largest river of Asia Minor after the Halys; it had its source in a mountain called Adoreus, near the little town of Sangia, on the borders of Galatia and Phrygia, whence it flowed first north through Galatia, then west and northwest through the northeastern part of Phrygia, and then north through Bithynia, of which it originally formed the eastern boundary. It fell at last into the Euxine, about half way between the Bosporus and Heraclea.
Sangarius: Perseus Encyclopedia
ALIZONES (Ancient country) VITHYNIA
The Halizones participated in the Trojan War as allies of the Trojans (Il. 2.856, 5.39).
Leader of the Halizones and ally of the Trojans (Il. 2.856).
Leader of the Halizones, who was slain by Agamemnon (Il. 2.856, 5.39).
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