Aegospotami
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River in Turkey
Aegospotami (
Aegospotami is located on the Dardanelles, south of the modern Turkish town of Sütlüce, Gelibolu.[3][4]
At its mouth was the scene of the decisive
Chersonese.[1]
According to ancient sources including Pliny the Elder and Aristotle, in 467 BC a large meteorite landed near Aegospotami. It was described as brown in colour and the size of a wagon load. A comet, tentatively identified as Halley's Comet, was reported at the time the meteorite landed. This is possibly the first European record of Halley's comet.[8][9]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-87779-510-X(deluxe).
- ^ John Freely -The companion guide to Turkey 1993 "... a stream known to the Greeks as Aegospotami, or Goats' River, which empties into the strait at Ince Limam, ..."
- ISBN 978-0-8014-9984-5.
- ^ Tzvetkova, Julia (2008) History of the Thracian Chersonese, Faber, pp. 263-335 (ISBN 978-954-400-001-1)
- ISBN 0-671-47035-3(LeatherKraft).
- ^ Donald Kagan, The Fall of the Athenian Empire, (Cornell University Press, 1991), p.386. "A key to understanding the course of events is that Aegospotami was only a beach, a place without a proper harbor, a little to the east of the modern Turkish town called Sütlüce, or Galata in its Greek form, the ancient town of ..."
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Aegospotami" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 255.
- ISBN 978-0-471-61011-3.
- ^ "Halley's comet 'was spotted by the ancient Greeks'". BBC. 10 September 2010.
40°19′55″N 26°36′00″E / 40.332°N 26.6°E / 40.332; 26.6
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