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Artace (Artake: Eth. Artakenos, Artakios, Artakeus: Artaki or Erdek),
a town of Mysia, near Cyzicus (Herod. iv. 14), and a Milesian colony. (Strab.
pp. 582, 635.) It was a sea-port, and on the same peninsula on which Cyzicus stood,
and about 40 stadia from it. Artace was burnt, together with Proconnesus, during
the Ionian revolt, in the reign of Darius I. (Herod. vi. 33.) Probably it was
not rebuilt, for Strabo does not mention it among the Mysian towns: but he speaks
of a wooded mountain Artace, with an island of the same name near to it, the same
which Pliny (v. 32) calls Artacaeum. Timosthenes, quoted by Stephanus (s. v. Artake),
also gives the name Artace to a mountain, and to a small island, one stadium from
the land. In the time of Procopius, Artace had been rebuilt, and was a suburb
of Cyzicus. (Bell. Pers. i. 25.) It is now a poor place. (Hamilton, Researches,
vol. ii. p. 97.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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