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ANGYRA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Macestus or Mecestus (Makestos or Mekestos), a tributary of the river
Rhyndacus: it took its origin in a lake near Ancyra, and, after flowing for some
distance in a western direction, it turned northward, and joined the Rhyndacus
a little to the north of Miletopolis. (Strab. xii. p. 576; Plin. v. 40.) It seems
to be the same river as the one called by Polybius Megistus (v. 77), though the
Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius (i. 1162) remarks, that in his time the Rhyndacus
itself bore that name. The lower part of the river now bears the name Susu or
Susugherli, while the upper part is called Simaul-Su. (Hamilton's Researches,
vol. ii. pp. 105, 111.)
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FRYGIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Cave in Phrygia, sacred to the Mother.
River of Phrygia.
Alander a river of Phrygia (Liv. xxxviii. 15, 18), which is twice mentioned by
Livy, in his account of the march of Cn. Manlius. It was probably a branch of
the Sangarius, as Hamilton (Researches in Asia Minor, vol. i. pp. 458, 467) conjectures,
and the stream which flows in the valley of Beiad; but he gives no modern name
A river of Phrygia, an eastern tributary of the Maeander, had its sources, according to Livy (xxxviii. 15), on the eastern side of Mount Cadmus, near the town of Asporidos, and flowed in the neighbourhood of Apamea Cibotus (Plin. v. 29.) This is all the direct information we possess about it; but from Livy's account of the expedition of Manlius, who had pitched his camp there, when he was visited by Seleucus from Apamea, we may gather some further particulars, which enable us to identify the Obrimas with the Sandukli Chai. Manlius had marched direct from Sagalassus, and must have led his army through the plains of Dombai, passing in the rear of Apamea. Thus Seleucus would easily hear of the consul being in his neighbourhood, and, in his desire to propitiate him, would have started after him and overtaken him the next day (postero die.) Manlius, moreover, at the sources of the Obrimas required guides, because he found himself hemmed in by mountains and unable to find his way to the plain of Metropolis. All this agrees perfectly well with the supposition that the ancient Obrimas is the modern Sandukli Chai (Hamilton, Researches, ii. p. 172, &e.). Franz (Funf Inschriften, p. 37), on the other hand, supposes the Kodsha Chai to correspond with the Obrimas. Arundell (Discov. in Asia Min. i. p. 231), again, believes that Livy has confounded the sources of the Marsyas and Maeander with those of the Obrimas.
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
Tymandus (Tumandos: Eth. TumandeWos), a place in Phrygia, between Philomelium
and Sozopolis. (Cone. Chalked. pp. 244, and 247: in this passage the reading Mandenon
pogis is corrupt; Hierocl. p. 673, where the name is miswritten Tumandros.) It
is possible that Tymandus may be the same as the Dymas mentioned by Livy (xxxviii.
15), for which some MSS. have Dimas or Dinias.
Gygaeus Lacus (Gugaia Limnm: Mermere), a lake in Phrygia, on the road
from Thyatira to Sardes, between the rivers Hermus and Hyllus. (Hom. Il. ii. 864,
xx. 391; Herod. i. 93; Strab. xiii. p. 626; Plin. v. 30.) This lake was afterwards
called Coloe, and near it was the necropolis of Sardes. It was said to have been
made by human hands, to receive the waters which inundated the plain. (Comp. Hamilton's
Researches, vol. i. p. 145.)
Tymbres a tributary of the Sangarius, in the north of Phrygia (Liv. xxxviii. 18),
is in all probability the same river as the one called by Pliny (vi. 1) Tembrogius,
which joined the Sangarius, as Livy says, on the borders of Phrygia and Galatia,
and, flowing in the plain of Dorylaeum, separated Phrygia Epictetus from Phrygia
Salutaris. It seems also to be the same river as the Thyaris and Bathys mentioned
in Byzantine writers. (Cinnamus, v. 1. p. 1ll; Richter, Wallfahrten, p. 522, foll.)
GALATIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Trocmada (Trokmada), a place of uncertain site in Galatia, which probably derived
its name from the tribe of the Trocmi, is mentioned only by late Christian writers
(Conc. Chalced. pp. 125, 309, 663; Conc. Constant. iii. p. 672; Conc. Nicaen.
ii. p. 355, where its name is Troknada; Hierocl. p. 698, where it is miswritten
Pegetnakade.)
KESSARIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Argaeus (Argaios: Argish, or Erjish Dagh), a lofty mountain in Cappadocia,
at the foot of which was Mazaca. It is, says Strabo (p. 538), always covered with
snow on the summit, and those who ascend it (and they are few) say that on a clear
day they can see from the top both the Euxine and the hay of Issus. Cappadocia,
he adds, is a woodless country, but there are forests round the base of Argaeus.
It is mentioned by Claudian. (In Ruf. ii. 30.) It has been doubted if the summit
of the mountain can be reached; but Hamilton (Researches, ii. 274) reached the
highest attainable point, above which is a mass of rock with steep perpendicular
sides,rising to a height of 20 or 25 feet above the ridge, on which he stood.
The state of the weather did not enable him to verify Strabo's remark about the
two seas, but he doubts if they can be seen, on account of the high mountains
which intervene to the N. and the S. He estimates the height above the sea-level
at about 13,000 feet. Argaeus is a volcanic mountain. It is the culminating point
in Asia Minor of the range of Taurus, or rather of that part which is called Antitaurus.
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PESSINOUS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Mountain.
THEMISONION (Ancient city) FRYGIA
Azanes. It is stated by Arundell (Asia Minor, vol. ii. p. 140) that, on a coin
of Themisonium in Phrygia, is a river-god, with the name of Azanes, evidence of
some river being at or near Themisonium. The site of Themisonium does not appear
to be quite certain; and nothing more seems to be known of the river Azanes, though
the conclusion from the coin, that there was a river of that name, can hardly
be doubted.
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