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On the coast 46 km W of the modern Anamur and the center of a region
known to Pliny (HN 5.92) as Kelenderitis. Said by Apollodoros to be a foundation
of Sandokos of Syria and therefore presumably of native origin, Kelenderis was
colonized, doubtless in the 8th c. B.C., by Samians. Included in the Delian League
between 460 and 454 as a way station on the route to Egypt, with an assessment
probably of one talent, it thereafter has no recorded history. Its coinage began
in the mid 5th c. and continued until the time of Decius. Survival into the 5th
c. of our era is attested by Hierocles and the Notitia. Of the recorded inscriptions,
nearly all funerary and datable to the 2d and 3d c., not one is now to be seen.
The ruins today are overlaid by the expanding modern village. Fortifications
may still be detected, nevertheless, around the modern lighthouse on the small
promontory which forms and commands the harbor; but the chief harbor was undoubtedly
the fine, landlocked bay with its famous spring 1.6 km to the W at Soguk Su. Here
there are ancient ruins, notably a bath at the head of the bay and archaeological
debris on the peninsula at its mouth. The most notable monument is the great built
tomb among olive trees to the E of the modern town. There are handsome but much
destroyed rock-cut tombs at Duruhan 9.6 km to the N.
T. B. Mitford, 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.
Total results on 9/5/2001: 10 for Kelenderis, 12 for Celenderis.
A city on the coast of Cilicia Trachea, to the northeast of the Anemurian promontory. It was founded by the Phoenicians, and afterwards received a Samian colony.
Celenderis (KeleWderis: Eth. KeleWderites: Chelendreh), a town of
Pamphylia, on the coast. The tradition was that it was a Phoenician settlement,
which was afterwards occupied by the Samians. (Mela, i. 13.) There was a temple
of Juno near the town, and a river Is, which flowed by them to the sea. (Scymnus,
quoted by Herodian.) It is described by Tacitus (Ann. ii. 80) as a very strong
place, on a high rock nearly surrounded by the sea. Piso attempted to take it.
Celenderis had a fort (Strab. p. 670); and Artemidorus, with other geographers,
considered this place, and not Coracesium, as the commencement of Cilicia.
Chelendreh has a snug but very small port, from whence the couriers
from Constantinople to Cyprus embark. (Beaufort, Karamania, p. 209.) The Turks
call it Gulnar. None of the remains of Celenderis appear to be older than the
early period of the Roman empire. The town gave name to a region called Celenderitis
(Plin. v. 27), and coined those silver tetradrachms, which supply some of the
earliest and finest specimens of the numismatic art. (Leake, Asia Minor,
&c. p. 116.) There are also coins of the Syrian kings, and of the later Roman
emperors, with the epigraph KeleWderitoW.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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