Listed 2 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for wider area of: "VARGASA Ancient city TURKEY" .
VARGASA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Bargasa (Bargasa: Eth. Bargasenos), a city of Caria. The Ethnic name
is given by Stephanus on the authority of Apollonius in his Carica. There are
also coins of Bargasa with the epigraph Bargasenon. It is mentioned by Strabo
(p. 656), who, after speaking of Cnidus, says, then Ceramus and Bargasa, small
places above the sea. The next place that he mentions is Halicarnassus. Bargasa
is therefore between Cnidus and Halicarnassus. Leake places Bargasa in his map,
by conjecture, at the head of the gulf of Cos, at a place which he marks Djovata;
this seems to be the Giva of Cramer. Neither of them states the authority for
this position.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
City in Caria, almost certainly at Gokbel near the coast, 29 km E of Bodrum. The city figures (as Pargasa) in the Delian Confederacy, usually paying 500 dr., and can have been only very small. From Strabo (656) it appears that it should be W of Keramos and close to the sea; at Gokbel, which is 18 km W of Keramos, there is a small citadel on a rocky hilltop, with a wall of rough masonry and sherds of archaic and Hellenistic date. A fragmentary Hellenistic city-decree was found here, proving the existence of a polis, and on the shore nearby another fragment referring to sacred harbors.
G. E. Bean, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
Receive our daily Newsletter with all the latest updates on the Greek Travel industry.
Subscribe now!