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A town of the Rhodian Peraea. It is named by Pliny (HN 5.104) between Kaunos and Loryma,and by Stephanos Byzantios. Earlier it was a member of the Delian Confederacy, with a tribute of one-sixth of a talent. It has been proposed to place it in the bay of Buyukkaraagac, between Kaunos and Physkos; there are remains of walls and tombs on the W side of the bay.
G. E. Bean, ed.
This extract 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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