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TREMITHOUS (Ancient city) CYPRUS
Tremithus (Tremithous, Steph. B. s. v.; Tremethous, Ptol. v. 14. §
6; Trimuthos, Constant. de Them. i. 15, p. 39, ed. Bonn; Treuithounton, Hierocl.
p. 707: Eth. Toeuithousios, Toeuithopolites), a town in the interior of Cyprus,
was the seat of a bishopic and a place of some importance in the Byzantine times.
According to the Peutinger Table it was 18 miles from Salamis, 24 from Citium,
and 24 from Tamassus. Stephanus B. calls it a village of Cyprus, and derives its
name from the turpentine trees (terebinthoi) which grew in its neighbourhood.
(Engel, Kypros, vol. i. p. 148.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
The site of a small town identified with Tremithous is partly occupied
by the modern village in the Mesaoria plain. The necropolis lies to the S. This
town seems to have flourished from Hellenistic to Early Byzantine times.
Nothing is known of its founding. Its later history, however, is fairly
well known for it is mentioned by Ptolemy (5.14.6), who counts it as one of the
interior towns of Cyprus, and by Stephanus Byzantius. In Early Christian times
it became the seat of a bishop. Its first bishop was Spyridon, who was present
at the Council of Nicaea in 325 and at that of Sardica in 343-344.
The worship of Apollo is attested by an inscription. Another inscription
records a horoscope of Flavian date. The road system in Roman times connected
Tremithous directly with Salamis and Kition.
Towards the end of the 19th c. an excavation uncovered a number of
tombs of the Hellenistic period producing mainly plain pottery. The town site,
however, is unexcavated though many finds have been recorded among which are a
number of inscribed funerary cippi.
K. Nicolaou, 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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