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which flows past Aspendus (Pliny 5.26)
ATTALIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Masura (Masoura), a place between Attalia and Perge in Pamphylia (Stadiasm. §
§ 200, 201), and 70 stadia from Mygdala, which is probably a corruption of Magydus.
FASILIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Solyma (ta Soluma), a high mountain near Phaselis in Lycia. (Strab.
xiv. p. 666.) As the mountain is not mentioned by any other writer, it is probably
only another name for the Chimaera Mons, the Olympus, or the mountains of the
Solymi, mentioned by Homer. (Od. v. 283.) In the Stadiasmus it is simply called
the oros mega: it extends about 70 miles northward from Phaselis, and its highest
point, now called Taghtalu, rises immediately above the ruins of Phaselis, which
exactly corresponds with the statement of Strabo. (Leake, Asia Minor, p. 189.)
KORYDALLOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Olympus (Olumpos). A volcanic mountain in the east of Lycia, a little
to the north-east of Corydalla. It also bore the name of Phoenicus, and near it
was a large town, likewise bearing the name Olympus. (Strab. xiv. p. 666.) In
another passage (xiv. p. 671) Strabo speaks of a mountain Olympus and a stronghold
of the same name in Cilicia, from which the whole of Lycia, Pamphylia, and Pisidia
could be surveyed, and which was in his time taken possession of by the Isaurian
robber Zenicetas. It is, however, generally supposed that this Cilician Olympus
is no other than the Lycian, and that the geographer was led into his mistake
by the fact that a town of the name of Corycus existed both in Lycia and Cilicia.
On the Lycian Olympus stood a temple of Hephaestus. (Comp. Stadiasm. Mar. Mag.
§ 205; Ptol. v. 3. § 3.) Scylax (39) does not mention Olympus, but his Siderus
is evidently no other place. (Leake, Asia Minor, p. 189; Fellows, Lycia, pp. 212,
foll.; Spratt and Forbes, Travels in Lycia, i. p. 192.) Mount Olympus now bears
the name Janar Dagh, and the town that of Deliktash; in the latter place, which
was first identified by Beaufort, some ancient remains still exist; but it does
not appear ever to have been a large town, as Strabo calls it.
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
MYRA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Andriaca (Andriake: Andraki), the port of the town of Myra in Lycia.
Appian (B.C. iv. 82) says that Lentulus broke through the chain which crossed
the entrance of the port, and went up the river to Myra. Beaufort (Karamania,
p. 26) gives the name Andraki to the river of Myra. On the north side of the entrance
are the remains of large Roman horrea, with a perfect inscription, which states
that the horrea were Hadrian's: the date is Hadrian's third consulate, which is
A.D. 119.
Andriaca is mentioned by Ptolemy; and Pliny has Andriaca civitas,
Myra (v. 27). Andriaca, then, is clearly the place at the mouth of the small river
on which Myra stood, 20 stadia higher up. (Strab. p. 666.) It must have been at
Andriaca, as Cramer observes, that St. Paul and his companions were put on board
the ship of Alexandria. (Acts, xxvii. 5, 6.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
SIDI (Ancient port) TURKEY
Cold river of Pamphilia.
TERMISSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
A village in Pisidia, between Corbasa and Termessus, is mentioned only by Livy
(xxxviii. 15). A place called Xyline, in the country of the Cissians in Pontus,
is noticed by Ptolemy (v. 6. § 6).
LIMYRA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Limyrus (ho Limuros), a river on the south coast of Lycia, which,
after receiving the waters of its tributary Arycandus (Fineka), becomes navigable
at the point where Limyra is situated. It falls into the sea, at a distance of
90 stadia west of the holy promontory, and 60 stadia from Melanippe. (Scyl. p.
39; Strab. xiv. p. 666; Ptol. v. 3. § 3.) Pliny (v. 28) and Mela (i. 15) call
the river Limyra, and the Stadiasmus Maris Magni ( § 211) Almyrus, which is no
doubt a mistake. Leake (Asia Minor, p. 187) states that both the Limyrus and the
Arycandus reach the sea at no great distance from each other; while in the map
of Lycia by Spratt, the Limyrus is the smaller river, and a tributary to the Arycandus.
Both these statements are opposed to the testimony of Pliny, whose words are:
Limyra cum amne in quem Arycandus influit.
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
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