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AMISSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Ancon (Ankon), a headland and bay, as the name implies, on the coast
of Pontus, east of Amisus. It is mentioned by Valerius Flaccus (iv. 600) in his
Argonautica, after the Iris, as if it were east of the mouth of that river. Apollonius
Rhodius simply speaks of it as a headland (ii. 369). The ancient authorities do
not agree in the distances along this coast (Steph. s. v. Chadisia; Hamilton,
Researches, vol. i. p. 288). The conclusion of Hamilton seems to be the most probable,
that Derbend Bournou, east of Amisus, represents Ancon, as it is the first headland
east of Amisus, and the only place before reaching the mouth of the Iris where
a harbour can exist. He adds, that at the extremity of Derbend Bournou, a small
stream falls into the sea between two precipitous headlands, probably the Chadisius
of the ancients.
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FAZIMON (Ancient city) TURKEY
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HERAKLIA OF PONTOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Lycus (Lukos), is the name of a great many rivers, especially in Asia,
and seems to have originated in the impression made upon the mind of the beholder
by a torrent rushing down the side of a hill, which suggested the idea of a wolf
rushing at his prey. The following rivers of this name occur in Asia Minor:
1. The Lycus of Bithynia: it flows in the east of Bithynia in a western direction,
and empties itself into the Euxine a little to the south of Heracleia Pontica,
which was twenty stadia distant from it. The breadth of the river is stated to
have been two plethra, and the plain near its mouth bore the name of Campus Lycaeus.
(Scylax, p. 34; Orph. Argon. 720; Arrian, Peripl. p. 14; Anonym. Peripl. p. 3;
Xenoph. Anab. vi. 2. § 3; Ov. Epist. ex Pont. x. 47; Memnon, ap. Phot. 51; Plin.
vi. 1, who erroneously states that Heracleia was situated on (appositum) the river.
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KERASSOUS (Ancient city) PONTOS
Aretias (Aretias), a small island on the coast of Pontus, 30 stadia
east of Pharnacia (Kerasunt), called Areos nesos by Scymnus (Steph. B. s. v. Areos
nesos) and Scylax. Here (Apollon. Rhod. ii. 384) the two queens of the Amazons,
Otrere and Antiope, built a temple to Ares. Mela (ii. 7) mentions this place,
under the name of Area or Aria, an island dedicated to Mars, in the neighbourhood
of Colchis. Aretias appears to be the rocky islet called by the Turks Kerasunt
Ada, which is between 3 and 4 miles from Kerasunt. The rock is a black volcanic
breccia, with imbedded fragments of trap, and is covered in many places with broken
oystershells brought by gulls and sea-birds. (Hamilton, Researches, i. 262.) This
may explain the legend of the terrible birds that frequented this spot. Pliny
(vi. 12) gives to the island also the name of Chalceritis.
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KOMANA (Ancient city) TURKEY
A place mentioned in the Peuting. Table in Pontus Polemoniacus, on the road from
Comana to Nicopolis, at a distance of 21 miles from, the former city. There can
be no doubt but that it is the same place as Megalula (Megaloula) mentioned by
Ptolemy (v. 6. § 10); but its exact site cannot be ascertained.
PAFLAGONIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Parthenius (Parthenios), the most important river in the west of Paphlagonia.
It owes its Greek name probably to a similarity in the sound of its native appellation,
which is still Bartan-Su or Bartine; though Greek authors fabled that it derived
its name from the fact that Artemis loved to bathe in its waters (Scymn. 226,
foll.) or to hunt on its banks, or from the purity of its waters. The river has
its sources on mount Olgassys, and in its north-western course formed the boundary
between Paphlagonia and Bithynia. It empties itself into the Euxine about 90 stadia
west of Amastris. (Hom. Il. ii. 854; Hes. Theog. 344; Herod. ii. 104; Xenoph.
Anab. v. 6. § 9, vi. 2. § 1; Strab. xii. p. 543; Ptol. v. 1. § 7; Arrian, Peripl.
p. 14; Steph. B. s. v., who erroneously states that the river flowed through the
middle of the town of Amastris; Ov. Ex Pont. iv. 10 49; Amm. Marc. xxii 9.)
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(Sakora), a town in the interior of Paphlagonia, is mentioned only by Ptolemy
(v. 4. § 5).
Thymena (Thumena), a place on the coast of Paphlagonia, at a distance of 90 stadia
from Aegialus. (Arrian, Peripl. P. E. p. 15; Anonym. Peripl. P. E. p. 6.) Ptolemy
(v. 4. § 2) mentions it under the name of Thymaena, and states that it was also
called Teuthrania.
Zagorus or Zagorum (Zagoros, or Zagoron, Marcian. p. 73; Zageira, Ptol. v. 4.
§ 5; Zagora, Arrian, Peripl. P. E. p. 15; Zacoria, Tab. Peut.), a town of Paphlagonia,
on the coast of the Euxine, between Sinope and the mouth of the Halys, from the
latter of which it was distant about 400 stadia.
Zalecus (Zalekos, or Zaliskos, in Ptol. v. 4. § 3), a small river on the coast of Paphlagonia, discharging itself into the Euxine at a distance of 210 stadia west of the Halys. (Marcian. p. 73.) At its mouth there was a small town of the same name, about 90 stadia from Zagorus, or Zagorum (Anon. Peripl. P. E. p. 9); and this place seems to be the same as the one mentioned in the Peut. Table under the corrupt name of Halega, at a distance of 25 Roman miles from Zacoria. Hamilton (Researches, i. p. 298) identifies the site of Zalecus with the modern Alatcham, where some ruins and massive walls are still seen.
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Stephane, a small port town on the coast of Paphlagonia, according to Arrian (Peripl.
P. E. p. 15) 180 stadia east of Cimolis, but according to Marcian (p. 72) only
150. The place was mentioned as early as the time of Hecataeus as a town of the
Mariandyni (Steph. B. s. v. Stephanis), under the name of Stephanis. (Comp. Scylax,
p. 34; Ptol. v. 4 § 2.) The modern village of Stephanio or Estifan probably occupies
the site of the ancient Stephane.
PONTOS (Ancient country) TURKEY
Amnias (Amnias, Amneios), a river in Pontus. In the broad plain on
the banks of this stream the generals of Mithridates defeated Nicomedes, king
of Bithynia, and the ally of the Romans, B.C. 88. (Appian. Mithridat. c. 18; Strab.
p. 562.) The plain through which the river flowed is called by Strabo Domanitis.
Hamilton (Researches, &c. vol. i. p. 362) identifies the Amnias with an affluent
of the Halys, now called Costambol Chai, and sometimes Giaour Irmak. It appears
that the river is also called Kara Su.
Lithrus (Lithros), the name of the northern branch of Mount Paryadres in Pontus,
which, together with Mount Ophelimus in the north-west of Amasia, enclosed the
extensive and fertile plain of Phanaroea. (Strab. xii. p. 556.) Hamilton (Researches,
vol. i. p. 349) believes that these two ancient hills answer to the modern Kemer
Dagh and Oktap Dagh.
(Melanthios), a small river on the north coast of Pontus, forming the boundary
between Pontus Polemoniacus and Cappadocius, and flowing into the Euxine a little
to the east of Cotyora. (Plin. H. N. vi. 4; Arrian, Peripl. p. 17; Anonym. Peripl.
p. 12; Tab. Peut., where it is called Melantus.) It is probably the same river
as that now bearing the name of Melet Irmak. (Hamilton, Researches, i. p. 267.)
A port-town on the coast of Pontus, at the mouth of the river Genius, which still
bears its ancient name of Oenoe under the corrupt form Unieh. (Arrian, Peripl.
Pont. Eux. p. 16; Anonym. Peripl. p. 11; comp. Hamilton, Researches, i. p. 271.)
Paryadres (Paruadres, Paruathris, or Paruardes), a range of lofty and rugged mountains in the north of Pontus, which is connected with Mount Taurus and Mount Caucasus (Strab. xi. p. 497, xii. p. 548; Plin. v. 27, vi. 9, 11). It commences at the western extremity of the Montes Moschici, proceeds in a south-western direction round Pontus, and there forms the frontier between Armenia and Cappadocia. A more southern branch of the same mountain is the Scoedises. Ptolemy (v. 13. § § 5, 9) describes this mountain as containing the sources of the Euphrates and Araxes, and accordingly includes within its range Mount Abus, from which others make those rivers flow. The Paryadres contains the sources of only small rivers, of which the largest is the Absarus. The mountain was in ancient times thickly covered with wood, and the population upon and about it consisted of robbers (Strab. xii. p. 548). Many parts of the mountain are extremely rugged, and almost inaccessible, whence Mithridates of Pontus built many of his treasure-houses there, and when pursued by Pompey, concealed himself in its fastnesses. In a climatic point of view the mountain divides Pontus into two distinct regions ; for while the north side is stern and cold, its southern side is delightfully warm. Hence the ancients called the point of transition in a pass between Trapezus and Satale, the Frigidarium. The modern name of the mountain is generally Kuttag, but it is also called Kara Bel. (Tournefort, Voyage i. lettre 18. p. 107.)
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Phanaroea (Phanaroia), a broad and extensive valley in Pontus, watered by the
rivers Iris, Lycus, and Scylax, and enclosed between the chain of Paryadres to
the east, and Mounts Lithrus and Ophlimus to the west. The soil there was the
best in Pontus, and yielded excellent wine and oil and other produce in abundance.
(Strab. ii. p. 73, xii. pp. 547, 556, 559; Plin. vi. 4; Ptol. v. 6. § 3, where
it is erroneously called Phanagoria.) Phanaroea contained the towns of Eupatoria,
Cabira, Polemonium, and others.
Scydises (Skudises), a chain of rugged mountains in the east of Pontus, which
was connected in the north with the Moschici Montes on the east, and with Mons
Paryadres on the north-west, while in the south-west it was connected with Antitaurus.
(Strab. xi. p. 497, xii. p. 548; Ptol. v. 6. § 8, where it is called Skordiskos.)
Modern travellers identify it with the Tshambu Bel (Wiener Jahrbucher, vol. cv.
p. 21.)
Sidenus a small river of Pontus, having its sources in Mount Paryadres, and flowing
through the district of Sidene into the Euxine; at its mouth was the town of Side
or Polemonium (Plin. vi. 4), from which the river is now called Pouleman Chai.
(Comp. Hamilton, Researches, i. p. 270.)
A fortress in Pontus Polemoniacus, on a river of the same name, and with a tolerably
good harbour. It was situated at a distance of 90 stadia from Cape Zephyrium.
(Arrian, Peripl. P. E. p. 17; Anon. Peripl. P. E. p. 13; Plin. vi. 4.) The place
still exists under the name of Tireboli, and is situated on a rocky headland.
(Hamilton, Researches, i. p. 257.)
Zagatis, a coast river in the E. part of Pontus, discharging itself into the Euxine about 7 stadia to the east of Athenae; probably the same river as the modern Sucha Dere. (Arrian, Peripl. P. E. p. 17; Anon. Peripl. P. E. p. 15.)
SINOPI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Armene (Armene or Harmene: Eth. Armenaios). Stephanus (s. v. Armene) observes
that Xenophon in the Anabasis (vi. 1. § 15) writes it Armene (dia tou e, psou
ii). The Ten Thousand on their return anchored their ships here, and stayed five
days. The place belonged to the Sinopians. It was 50 stadia west of Sinope (Sinab),
and had a port. (Strab. p. 545.) A small river, named Ochosbanes by Marcian (p.
72), and named also Ochthomanes in the Anonymous Periplus, and Ocheraenus by Scylax,
falls into the harbour.
THEMISKYRA (Ancient city) TURKEY
A river in Cappadocia, near Themiscyra, in land of Amazons, victory on it of Greeks over Amazons, passed by the Argonauts, the Amazons dwell on the.
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Thermodon (Thermodon: Thermeh), a river of Pontus, celebrated in the story about the Amazons, is described by Pliny (vi. 3) as having its sources in the Amazonian mountains, which are not mentioned by any other ancient writer, but are believed still to retain their ancient name in the form of Mason Dagh. (Hamilton, Researches, i. p. 283.) Strabo (xii. p. 547) places its many sources near Phanaroea, and says that many streams combine to form the Thermodon. Its course is not very long, but its breadth was nevertheless three plethra, and it was a navigable river (Xen. Anab. v. 6. 9, vi. 2. § 1; Arrian, Peripl. P.E. p. 16.) It discharged itself into the Euxine near the town of Themiscyra, at a distance of 4000 stadia to the north-east of the mouth of the Iris. This river is very often noticed by ancient writers. See Aeschyl. Prom. 274, Suppl. 290; Herod. ix. 27; Scylax, p. 33; Strab. i. p. 52, vii. p. 298; Anon. Peripl. P. E. p. 10; Ptol. v. 6. § 4; Pomp. Mela, i. 19; Plin. xi. 19, xxxvii. 37; Virg. Aen. xi. 659; Ov. ex Pont. iv. 19 51; Propert. iv. 4. 71, and many other passages.
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Lamyron (Lamuron), a great harbour near Cape Heraclium, on the coast of Pontus, not far from Themiscyra. (Anonym. Peripl. Point. Eux. p. 10.)
PAFLAGONIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Carambis (Karambis: Kerempe). a promontory of Asia Minor, in the Paphlagonia
of Strabo (p. 545), who describes it as a great headland, turned to the north
and to the Scythian or Tauric Chersonesus. He considers this promontory and the
promontory of Criou Metopon in the Tauric Chersonesus as dividing the Euxine into
two seas. He states (p. 124) the distance between the two promontories at 2500
stadia; but this must be an error in the text for 1500 stadia, as a comparison
with another passage (p. 309) seems to show; and the fact that many navigators
of the Euxine are said to have seen both promontories at once (see Groskurd's
note in his Transl. of Strabo, vol. i. p. 204). Pliny (iv. 12) makes the distance
170 M. P. This promontory of Carambis is mentioned by all the ancient geographers,
and by many other writers. Pliny (vi. 2) makes the distance of Carambis from the
entrance of the Pontus 325 M. P., or 350 M. P. according to some authorities.
The direct distance from Sinope, which is east of it, was reckoned 700 stadia;
but the true distance is about 100 English miles. Carambis is in 42° N. lat. and
a little more; and it is not so far north as the promontory Syrias or Lepte, which
is near Sinope.
There was also a place called Carambis near the promontory, mentioned
by Scylax and Pliny, though the name in Scylax is an emendation of thle MS. reading
Caramus; but it appears to be a certain emendation.
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PONTOS (Ancient country) TURKEY
Theches, one of the highest points of Mount Paryadres in Pontus, south-east of
Trapezus, on the borders of the country inhabited by the Macrones. From it the
Ten Thousand Greeks under Xenophon for the first time descried the distant Euxine.
(Xenoph. Anab. iv. 7. § 21.) Diodorus Siculus (xiv. 29) calls the mountain Chenion
oros; but it still bears its ancient name Tekieh. (Ritter, Erdkunde, ii. p. 768.)
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