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The Latin writers state that Dardania was a small country above Troas and Aeneas was its leader.
A district of the Troad, lying along the Hellespont, southwest of Abydos, and adjacent to the territory of Ilium. Its people (Dardani) appear in the Trojan War, under Aeneas, in close alliance with the Trojans, with whose name their own is often interchanged, especially by the Roman poets.
Dardania (Dardania) or Dardanice, a territory in Mysia, the limits
of which are not very clearly defined. Strabo interprets Homer as placing Dardania
above Ilium, on the Paroreia of Troja; and in another place, after describing
the positions of Abydus, Dardanus, and the places on the coast of the Hellespont
as far as Sigeium, he says, above them lies the Trojan plain, which extends eastward
many stadia, as far as Ida. The Paroreia (mountain tract) is narrow: it extends
on one side south as far as the parts about Scepsis, and north to the Lycians
about Zeleia. Again, when he is describing the places about the promontory of
Lectum, and the river Satnioeis, he says that all these places are adjacent to
Dardania and Scepsis, being a kind of second and lower Dardania. There is really
no historical province Dardania, and all that Strabo says of it is derived from
his interpretation of the Iliad. The Dardani and Dardanii are mentioned in the
Iliad (ii. 819, xv. 425). Aeneas, in the Iliad, is the commander of the Dardani.
Dardanus, a son of Jupiter, settled in Dardania long before Ilium
was built in the plain. He was the ancestor of Priamus; and there were five generations
from Dardanus to Priamus. (Il. xx. 215, &c.) Dardanus was a wanderer into Asia;
and the legend seems to represent a tradition of the Dardani coming. from Europe
and seizing a part of Mysia. Dardanus found the country occupied by Teucri, who
had a king Teucer. According to the authority of Cephalon (Steph. B. s.vv. Arisbe
and Dardanos), Dardanus came from Samothrace and married a daughter of Teucer.
Cephalon and Hellanicus could, not agree about the woman's name.
Strabo mentions a promontory Dardanis or Dardanium, about 70 stadia
south of Abydus: it appears to be the Kephiz Burnu of the Turks, and the Punta
dei Barbieri of the Europeans (Strab.); and probably that which Pliny calls Trapeza.
There was a tradition that the descendants of Aeneas maintained themselves in
part of the inland territory of Dardania, after the war of Troy. Xenophon (Hell.
iii. 1. § 10) speaks of one Zenis a Dardaneus, who had a principality in Mysia,
and Scepsis and Gergitha were two of his strong places; but the territory that
he had was not the old Dardania. Xenophon calls it the Aeolis of Pharnabazus.
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
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