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TELMISSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Lagusa (Lagousa), one of a group of small islands in the bay of Telmissus
in Lycia, 5 stadia from Telmissus, and 80 from Cissidae. (Plin. v. 35 ; Steph.
B. s. v.; Stadiasm. Mar. Mag. § 226, foll.) This island is generally considered
to be the same as the modern Panagia di Cordialissa.
KERAMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Cerameicus (Kerameikos kolpos), a bay in Caria (Herod. i. 174), now
the gulf of Boudroun, so called from a town Ceramus (Keramos), which is on the
gulf. Strabo places Ceramus and Bargasa near the sea, between Cnidus and Halicarnassus,
and Ceramus comes next after Cnidus. D'Anville identifies Ceramus with a place
called Keramo, but this place does not appear to be known. (Leake, Asia Minor,
p. 225.) Ptolemy seems to place Ceramus on the south side of the bay. Some modern
maps place it on the north side; but this cannot be true, particularly if Bargasa
is rightly determined. There are medals which are assigned to Ceramus by some
numismatists.
Pliny mentions a Doridis Sinus. Now, as Doris is the country occupied
by the Dorian colonies, this name is more appropriate to the Cerameicus, on the
north side of which is Halicarnassus, and at the entrance is the island of Cos.
Pliny's words are clear, though they have been generally misunderstood; for, after
mentioning the bay of Schoenus and the Regio Bubassus, he mentions Cnidus, and
he says that Doris begins at Cnidus. Again, he says that Halicarnassus is between
the Cerameicus and the Iasius: the Cerameicus of Pliny, then, is either different
from the Sinus Doridis, or it is one of the bays included in the Sinus Doridis,
and so called from the town of Ceramus. But Pliny places in the Doridis Sinus,
Leucopolis, Hamaxitus, Elaeus, and Euthene; and Mela (i. 16) places Euthane, as
he calls it, in a bay between Cnidus and the Cerameicus Sinus: from which it clearly
appears that Euthane is in the Sinus Doridis of Pliny, and that Mela's Cerameicus
is a smaller bay in the Sinus Doridis. Mela's Littus Leuca is between Halicarnassus
and Myndus; and if this is Pliny's Leucopolis, as we may assume, the identity
of the Cerameicus and the Sinus Doridis of Pliny is clearly established.
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
MYNDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Α promontory belonging to the Myndians, opposite which lies Scandaria, a promontory of Cos, forty stadia distant from the mainland. And there is a place called Termerum above the promontory of Cos.
POSSIDION (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
Argathonius (Arganthonios, Arganthon, Steph. s. v. Arganthon: Adj.
Arganthoneios), a mountain range in Bithynia, which forms a peninsula, and divides
the gulfs of Cius and Astacus. The range terminates in a headland which Ptolemy
calls Posidium: the modern name is Katirli, according to some authorities, and
Bozburun according to others. The name is connected with the mythus of Hylas and
the Argonautic expedition. (Strab. p. 564; Apoll. Rhod. i. 1176.)
ZEFYRION (Ancient location) TURKEY
Philyreis (Philureis), an island off the coast of Pontus, in the Euxine.
It must have been situated near Cape Zephyrium, opposite the district inhabited
by the Philyres, from which, in all probability, it derived its name. (Apollon.
Rhod. ii. 1231; comp. Amm. Marc. xxii. 8; Dionys. Per. 766; Steph. B. s. v. Philures.)
Hamilton (Researches, i. p. 261) identifies it with the small rocky island 2 miles
west of Cape Zefreh, and between it and the island of Kerasonde Ada.
KNIDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Triopium (Triopion akron: C. Crio), the promontory at the eastern
extremity of the peninsula of Gnidus, forming at the same time the southwestern
extremity of Asia Minor. (Thucyd. viii. 35, 60; Scylax, p. 38; Pomp. Mela, i.
16.) On the summit of this promontory a temple of Apollo, hence called the Triopian,
seems to have stood, near which games were celebrated, whence Scylax calls the
promontory the akroterion hieron. According to some authorities the town of Cnidus
itself also bore the name of Triopium, having, it is said, been founded by Triopas.
(Steph. B. s. v. Triopion; Plin. v. 29, who calls it Triopia; Eustath. ad Horn.
Il. iv. 341)
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
MYNDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Scopia (Skopia akra), a headland on the west coast of Caria, to the west of Myndus,
and opposite the island of Cos. (Ptol. v. 2. § 10.) Strabo (xiv. p. 658) mentions
two headlands in the same vicinity, Astypalaea and Zephyrium, one of which may
possibly be the same as Scopia.
TELMISSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
A bay between Lycia and Caria, which derived its name from the Lycian town of
Telmessus (Liv. xxxvii. 16; Lucan viii.248); but it is more commonly known by
the name Glaucus Sinus, and is at present called the Bay of Macri.
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