Listed 3 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for destination: "KILLA Ancient city EOLIS".
Total results on 27/9/2001: 17 for Cilla, 3 for Killa.
A small town in the Troad, celebrated for its temple of Apollo, surnamed Cillaeus.
Cilla (Killa; Eth. Killaios), a town of Mysia, mentioned in the Iliad
(i. 36), with Chryse and Tenedus. Herodotus (i. 149) enumerates Cilia among the
eleven old Aeolian cities of Asia. Strabo (p. 612) places Cilia in the Adramyttene:
he says, near to Thebe is now a place named Cilia, where the temple of Apollo
Cillaeus is; there flows by it the river Cillos which comes from Ida; both Chrysa
and Cilia are near Antandrus; also the hill Cillaeum in Lesbos derived its name
from this Cilla; and there is a mountain Cillaeum between Gargara and Antandrus;
Daes of Colonae says that the temple of Apollo Cillaeus was first built at Colonae
by the Aeolians, who came from Hellas; and they say that a temple of Apollo Cillaeus
was also built at Chrysa, but it is uncertain whether this Apollo was the same
as Smintheus, or another. This river Cillos is said to be called Zellete or Zikeli,
according to some authorities.
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