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On the right bank of the river Tonzos (modern Tundza) near the city
of Yambol, a settlement of the Bronze Age (2d millennium B.C.). The Thracian city
was conquered by the Macedonians in 342-341 (Dem. 8.44; 10.15). It was an economic
and trade center of the state of the Thracian king Seuthes III (323-311 B.C.)
(Theopomp. fr. 246; Harp. s.v.; Strab. 7.320; Steph. Byz. 346.1). It was conquered
by Rome in 72 B.C. (Eutr. 6.10), and it became a city in the Roman province of
Thracia. The territory of the city included the middle reaches of the river Tonzos.
In A.D. 378 a battle was fought between the Romans and the West Goths nearby (Amm.
Marc. 31.15.5). It was a rest stop on the road to Adrianopolis (Edirne) and Anchialus
(Pomorie). In the 4th c. it was the seat of a bishop but disappeared in the 6th
c.
In the 3d c. B.C. the city minted its own coins. There was an agora,
a temple of Artemis-Hekate-Phosphorion and a temple of Apollo (IG Bulg. III/2,
n. 1731). In A.D. 145 immigrants from Perinthos erected votive inscriptions to
Herakles Agoraios. Excavations have uncovered a large basilica of late antique
date and parts of the defense wall. The finds from Kabyle are in the Regional
Museum of Yambol.
V. Velkoy, 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.
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