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PERKOTI (Ancient city) MYSIA
Percote (Perkote: Eth. Perkosios), an ancient town of Mysia, on the
Hellespont, between Abydos and Lampsacus, and probably on the little river Percotes.
(Hom. Il. ii. 835, xi. 229; Xenoph. Hellen. v. 1. § 23.) Percote continued to
exist long after the Trojan War, as it is spoken of by Herodotus (v. 117), Scylax
(p. 35), Apollonius Rhodius (i. 932), Arrian (Anab. i. 13), Pliny (v. 32), and
Stephanus Byz. (s. v.). Some writers mention it among the towns assigned to Themistocles
by the king of Persia. (Plut. Them. 30; Athen. i. p. 29.) According to Strabo
(xiii. p. 590) its ancient name had been Percope. Modern travellers are unanimous
in identifying its site with Bergaz or Bergan, a small Turkish town on the left
bank of a small river, situated on a sloping hill in a charming district. (Sibthorpe's
Journal, in Walpole's Turkey, i. p. 91; Richter, Wallfahrten, p. 434.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(Perkote). A very ancient city of Mysia, between Abydos and Lampsacus, near the Hellespont.
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