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ASCANIA (Ancient area) MYSIA
Ascania lacus or Ascanius (Askania: Isnik), a large lake in Bithynia,
at the east extremity of which was the city of Nicaea. (Strab. p. 5 65, &c.) Apollodorus,
quoted by Strabo (p. 681), says that there was a place called Ascania on the lake.
The lake is about 10 miles long and 4 wide, surrounded on three sides by steep
woody slopes, behind which rise the snowy summits of the Olympus range. (Leake,
Asia Minor, p. 7.) Cramer refers to Aristotle (Mirab. Ausc. c. 54) and Pliny (xxxi.
10), to show that the waters of this lake are impregnated with nitre; but Aristotle
and Pliny mean another Ascania. This lake is fresh; a river flows into it, and
runs out into the bay of Cios. This river is the Ascanius of Pliny (v. 32) and
Strabo.
The Ascanius of Homer (Il. ii. 862) is supposed to be about this lake of
Strabo (p. 566), who attempts to explain this passage of the Iliad. The country
around the lake was called Ascania. (Steph. s. v. Askania.) The salt lake Ascania,
to which Aristotle and Pliny refer, is a lake of Pisidia, the lake of Buldur or
Burdur.
The salt lake Ascania of Arrian (Anab. i. 29) is a different lake
[Anaya].
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
MYSIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
(Mandakada), a place in Mysia, which is not mentioned till the time
of Hierocles (p. 663), though it must have existed before, as Pliny (v. 32) mentions
Cilices Mandacadeni in the northern part of Mysia on the Hellespont.
Olympus (Olumpos). A mountain range of Mysia, extending eastward as far as the river Sangarius, and dividing Phrygia from Bithynia. To distinguish it from other mountains of the same name, it often is called the Mysian Olympus. Its height rises towards the west, and that part which is of the greatest height, is the highest mountain in all Asia Minor. The country around this mountain was well peopled, but its heights were thickly clad with wood, and contained many safe retreats for robbers, bands of whom, under a regular leader, often rendered the country unsafe. (Strab. xii. p. 574, comp. x. p. 470, xii. p. 571; Herod. i. 36, vii. 74; Ptol. v. 1. § 10; Steph. B. s. >v.; Plin. v. 40, 43; Pomp. Mela, i. 19; Amm. Marc. xxvi. 9; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 598.) The lower regions of this great mountain are still covered with extensive forests; but the summit is rocky, devoid of vegetation, and during the greater part of the year covered with snow. The Turks generally call it Anadoli Dagh, though the western or highest parts also bear the name of Keshish Dagh, that is, the Monk's Mountain, and the eastern Toumandji or Domoun Dagh. The Byzantine historians mention several fortresses to defend the passes of Olympus, such as Pitheca (Nicet. Chon. p. 35; B. Cinnam. p. 21), Acrunum, and Calogroea (B. Cinnam. l. c.; Cedren. p. 553; Anna Comn. p. 441; comp. Brown, in Walpole's Turkey, tom, ii. pp. 109, foil.; Pococke, Travels iii. p. 178).
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
Tarsius (Tarsios), a river of Mysia in the neighbourhood of the town
of Zeleia, which had its source in Mount Temnus, and flowed in a northeastern
direction through the lake of Miletopolis, and, issuing from it, continued its
north-eastern course till it joined the Macestus. (Strab. xiii. p. p. 587.) Strabo
indeed states that the river flowed in numerous windings not far from Zeleia;
but he can scarcely mean any other river than the one now bearing the name Balikesri,
and which the Turks still call Tarza. Hamilton (Researches, vol. ii. p. 106) identifies
it with the Kara Su or Kara Dere Su, which flows into Lake Maniyas.
Pelecas (Pelekas), a mountain in Mysia, which lay between the Apian plain and
the river Megistus. (Polyb. v. 77.) It is probably the continuation of Mt. Temnus,
separating the valley of the Aesepus from that of the Megistus. It has been remarked
by Forbiger that there is a striking similarity between this name and that of
the woody mountain Plakos mentioned by Homer, at whose foot Thebe is said to have
stood, but the position of which was subsequently unknown. (Hom. Il. vi. 397,
vii. 396. 425, xxii. 479; Strab. xiii. p. 614.)
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