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KAVILI (Ancient city) THRAKI
Cabyle or Calybe (Kabule, Kalube), a town in the interior of Thrace,
west of Develtus, on the river Tonsus. It was colonised by Philip with rebellious
Macedonians, and afterwards taken by M. Lucullus. (Dem. de Cherson. p. 60; Pol.
xiii. 10; Strab. vii. p. 330; Ptol. iii. 11. § 12; Eutrop. vi. 8; Sext. Ruf. Brev.
9; Plin. iv. 18; Steph. B. s. v.) Cabyle is probably the same as the town of Goloe
mentioned by Anna Comnena (x. pp. 274, 281), and is generally identified with
the modern Golewitza or Chalil-Ovasi.
On the right bank of the river Tonzos (modern Tundza) near the city
of Yambol, a settlement of the Bronze Age (2d millennium B.C.). The Thracian city
was conquered by the Macedonians in 342-341 (Dem. 8.44; 10.15). It was an economic
and trade center of the state of the Thracian king Seuthes III (323-311 B.C.)
(Theopomp. fr. 246; Harp. s.v.; Strab. 7.320; Steph. Byz. 346.1). It was conquered
by Rome in 72 B.C. (Eutr. 6.10), and it became a city in the Roman province of
Thracia. The territory of the city included the middle reaches of the river Tonzos.
In A.D. 378 a battle was fought between the Romans and the West Goths nearby (Amm.
Marc. 31.15.5). It was a rest stop on the road to Adrianopolis (Edirne) and Anchialus
(Pomorie). In the 4th c. it was the seat of a bishop but disappeared in the 6th
c.
In the 3d c. B.C. the city minted its own coins. There was an agora,
a temple of Artemis-Hekate-Phosphorion and a temple of Apollo (IG Bulg. III/2,
n. 1731). In A.D. 145 immigrants from Perinthos erected votive inscriptions to
Herakles Agoraios. Excavations have uncovered a large basilica of late antique
date and parts of the defense wall. The finds from Kabyle are in the Regional
Museum of Yambol.
V. Velkoy, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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