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Charadrus

CHARADROS (Ancient city) TURKEY
  Charadrus (Charadros), a place on the coast of Cilicia, between Platanus and Cragus, according to the Stadiasmus. Strabo, who writes it Charadrous, describes it as a fort with a port below it, and a mountain Andriclus above it. It is described by Beaufort (Karamania, p. 194) as an opening through the mountains with a small river. The natives call the place Karadran. The mountain is mentioned in the Stadiasmus under the name Androcus. Beaufort observes that the great arm of Mount Taurus, which proceeds in a direct line from Alaya (Coracesium) towards Cape Anamour, suddenly breaks off abreast of Karadran, and was probably the Mount Andriclus, which Strabo describes as overhanging Charadrus. The river at Karadran, which was also named Charadrus, was mentioned by Hecataeus in his Asia. (Steph. B. s. v. Charadros.)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
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Charadrus

The Catholic Encyclopedia (1908)
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Charadros

  Site in Cilicia Aspera, 25 km W of Anamur. Recorded as a city with harbor by Pseudo-Skylax in the 4th c. B.C., later a station under a Ptolemaic hegemon. It is mentioned in the Stadiasmus as a chorion, and about A.D. 200 as a harbor of Lamos--probably the region rather than the city (IGR III, 838). Virtually nothing remains of the city apart from some scattered blocks among the houses and a milestone of A.D. 137.

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.

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