Madytus

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Madytus or Madytos (

Thracian Chersonesos, nearly opposite to Abydos.[3][4][5]

The city was a colony of the

Hellespont.[6][7]

This was part of the Greek colonization movement of the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Later more colonists came from the Greek Ionian cities of

Clazomenae. Archaeological evidence also supports Aeolian or possibly Athenian origin of colonists.[8]

Madytus is tied to Greek mythology as it claimed to have the tomb of Hecuba in its territory.[2]

Madytus is referred to by

Athenian tribute registries between 445/4 and 421/0 BC.[2] Bronze coins dated to the fourth century BC inscribed ΜΑΔΥ have been preserved.[2]

Madytus was an active commercial port during the

exchange of population between Greece and Turkey, most of the Greeks moved to Greece, where they founded the town of Nea Madytos
.

Its site is located near the modern

European Turkey.[12][13] Ptolemy mentions a town in the same district with the name of Madis, which some identify with Madytus, but which seems to have been situated more inland.[14][15]

See also

References

  1. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-19-814099-1
    .
  3. Ab urbe condita Libri
    [History of Rome]. Vol. 31.16, 33.38.
  4. ^ Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. Vol. 2.2.
  5. Anna Comnena, xiv.; Strabo. Geographica. Vol. vii. p. 331. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon
    's edition.
  6. ^ Pseudo-Scymnus (705-10), see: Scymni Chii Periegesis. Edition S.G. Teubner, 1846, Lipsiae. p. 40, available online http://my.qoop.com/google/mM2tt4TSVOQC/
  7. ^ Benjamin H. Isaac (1986) The Greek settlements in Thrace until the Macedonian Conquest, Ed. E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, p. 161.
  8. ^ Loukopoulou L. (2004) Thracian Chersonesos, in M. H. Hansen & T. H. Nielsen, Eds. (2004) An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis, Oxford University Press, p. 900.
  9. ^ Herodotus of Halikarnassus, The Histories, Book 7 (Polymnia), 30.
  10. ^ Hellenika, 1.1.3; cf. D. H. Kelly, Xenophon’s Hellenika: a Commentary (ed. J. McDonald), Amsterdam, 2019, p, 70.
  11. ^ W. Heyd (1885) Histoire du commerce du Levant au Moyen-Age, Ed. Emile Lechevauer, Paris, 1885, p. 284.
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  13. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  14. ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.12.4.
  15. ^ Public Domain Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Madytus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Madytus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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