Semystra

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Coordinates: 41°03′55″N 28°56′43″E / 41.065398°N 28.94536°E / 41.065398; 28.94536
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This article is about the town. For the nymph, see Semystra (nymph).

Semystra (

Keroessa, who was the daughter of Io and Zeus.[2][3]
Dionysius added that Semystra nearly became a big city during the
Greek colonization, since the leaders of the colonization tried to found the city, but during the sacrifices, a crow snatched one of the thighs from the middle of the flames and carried it to the Bosporion promontory. The rest of the Greeks saw this as a sign from Apollo and went to the spot were the crow left the thigh.[2][3]

Its site is located at the head of the

European Turkey.[1][4]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9
    .
  2. ^ a b Dionysius of Byzantium, Anaplous of the Bosporos, §24
  3. ^ a b Anaplous Bosporou. Dionysii Byzantii De Bospori navigatione quae supersunt; una cum supplementis in geographos graecos minores aliisque ejusdem argumenti fragmentis e codicibus MSS. edidit Carolus Wescher, p.12
  4. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

41°03′55″N 28°56′43″E / 41.065398°N 28.94536°E / 41.065398; 28.94536


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