Cabira

Coordinates: 40°35′22″N 36°57′18″E / 40.58956°N 36.95501°E / 40.58956; 36.95501
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Cabira or Kabeira (

Amisus and Eupatoria.[3] Lucullus afterwards took Cabira.[4] There are some autonomous coins of Cabira with the epigraph "Καβηρων".[5]

Strabo, a native of Amasia, could not be unacquainted with the site of Cabira. The only place that corresponds to his description is

Paulus Diaconus the place was destroyed by an earthquake.[5]

Cramer supposes that Neocaesarea is identical with Ameria, and he adds that Neocaesarea was the principal seat of pagan idolatry and superstitions, which affords another presumption that it had risen on the foundation of Ameria and the worship of Men Pharnaces. But Ameria seems to have been at or near Cabira; and all difficulties are reconciled by supposing that Cabira, Ameria, Neocaesarea were in the valley of the Lycus, and if not on the same spot, at least very near to one another. Stephanus of Byzantium adds to our difficulties by saying or seeming to say that the inhabitants were also called Adrianopolitae, suggesting that Adrianopolis or Hadrianopolis was still another name of the city in his time.[11] Where he got this from, nobody can tell.[5] Modern scholars identify Hadriane as a name borne by the town.[7][12]

Hamilton was informed at Niksar that on the road from Niksar to Sivas, and about fourteen hours from Niksar, there is a high perpendicular rock, almost inaccessible on all sides, with a stream of water flowing from the top, and a river at its base. This is exactly Strabo's description of Caenon.[5]

Modern scholars fix its site at modern Niksar, Asiatic Turkey.[7][12]

See also

References

  1. ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. p. 556. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. ^ the text of Strabo is a little uncertain, and not quite clear; Groskurd, transl. vol. ii. p. 491, n.
  3. ^ Appian, Mithrid. c. 78.
  4. ^ Plutarch, Lucullus, c. 18.
  5. ^ a b c d  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cabira". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
  6. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 6.3.
  7. ^ .
  8. ^ John Cramer Asia Minor, vol. i. p. 315.
  9. ^ Albert Forbiger, Geog. vol. ii. p. 428.
  10. ^ Ammianus Marcellinus 27.12.
  11. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Νεοκαισάρεια.
  12. ^ a b Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.


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