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ADRIANOUPOLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
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ADRIANOUPOLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Hadrianopolis (Hadrianoupolis) (Adrianople or Edrene), the most important
of the many towns founded by the emperor Hadrian, was situated in Thrace, at the
point where the river Tonzus joins the Hebrus, and where the latter river, having
been fed in its upper course by numerous tributaries, becomes navigable. From
Ammianus Marcellinus (xiv. 11, xxvii. 4) it would appear that Hadrianopolis was
not an entirely new town, but that there had existed before on the same spot a
place called Uscudama, which is mentioned also by Eutropius (vi. 8). But as Uscudama
is not noticed by earlier writers, some modern critics have inferred that Marcellinus
was mistaken, and that Uscudama was situated in another part of the country. Such
criticism, however, is quite arbitrary, and ought not to be listened to. At one
time Hadrianopolis was designated by the name of Orestias or Odrysus (Lamprid.
Heliog. 7; Nicet. pp. 360, 830; Aposp. Geog. ap. Hudson, iv. p. 42); but this
name seems afterwards to have been dropped. The country around Hadrianople was
very fertile, and the site altogether very fortunate, in consequence of which
its inhabitants soon rose to a high degree of prosperity. They carried on extensive
commerce and were distinguished for their manufactures, especially of arms. The
city was strongly fortified, and had to sustain a siege by the Goths in A.D. 378,
on which occasion the workmen in the manufactories of arms formed a distinct corps.
Next to Constantinople, Hadrianopolis was the first city of the Eastern empire,
and this rank it maintained throughout the middle ages; the Byzantine emperors,
as well as the Turkish sultans, often resided at Hadrianopolis. (Spart. Hadr.
20; Amm. Marc. xxxi. 6, 12, 15; It. Ant. 137, 175, 322; Procop. B. G. iii. 40;
Ann. Comn. x. p. 277; Zosim. ii. 22; Cedren. ii. pp. 184, 284, 302, 454; Hierocl.
p. 635; Nicet. p. 830.)
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
ENOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Aenus (Ainos: Eth. Ainhiates, Aenius: Enos), a town of Thrace, situated
upon a promontory on the south-eastern side of the PaIns Stentoris, through which
one of the mouths of the Hebrus makes its way into the sea. According to Virgil
(Aen. iii. 18), it was founded by Aeneas when he landed there on his way from
Troy, but there does not seem any more authority for this statement than the similarity
of the names; but its antiquity is attested by the fact of its being mentioned
by Homer (Il. iv. 519). According to Herodotus (vii. 58) and Thucydides (vii.
57), Aenus was an Aeolic colony. Neither of them, however, mentions from what
particular place it was colonised. Scymnus Chius (696) attributes its foundation
to Mytilene; Stephanus Byzant. to Cumae, or, according to Meineke's edition, to
the two places conjointly. According to Strabo, a more ancient name of the place
was Poltyobria. Stephanus says it was also called Apsinthus.
Little especial mention of Aenus occurs till a comparatively late
period of Grecian history. It is mentioned by Thucydides that Aenus sent forces
to the Sicilian expedition as a subject ally of Athens. At a later period we find
it successively in the possession of Ptolemy Philopator, B.C. 222 (Pol. v. 34),
of Philip, king of Macedonia, B.C. 200 (Liv. xxxi. 16), and of Antiochus the Great.
After the defeat of the latter by the Romans, Aenus was declared free. (Liv. xxxviii.
60.) It was still a free city in the time of Pliny (iv. 11).
Athenaeus speaks of the climate of Aenus as being peculiarly ungenial.
He describes the year there as consisting of eight months of cold, and four of
winter.
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
KYPSELA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Cypsela (Kupsela), a town on the river Hebrus in Thrace, which was
once an important place on the via Egnatia. It is the same as the modern Ipsala,
or Chapsylar, near Keshan. (Strab. pp. 322, 329; Ptol. iii. 11. § 13; Steph. Byz.
s. v.; Ann. Comn. vii. p. 204; Liv. xxxi. 16, xxxviii. 40, 41; Mela, ii. 2; Plin.
iv. 18.)
ADRIANOUPOLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The modern Adrianople. A town in Thrace, on the right bank of the Hebrus, situated in an extensive plain, founded by the emperor Hadrian. In the Middle Ages it ranked second to Constantinople alone.
The primitive name of Adrianopolis in Thrace, and which the Byzantine authors frequently employ in speaking of that city. The name is derived from the circumstance of Orestes having purified himself on this spot after the murder of his mother.
ENOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
A town in Thrace, near the mouth of the Hebrus, said by Vergil to have been founded by Aeneas.
KYPSELA (Ancient city) TURKEY
(ta Kupsela). A town in Thrace on the Hebrus and the Egnatia Via.
ADRIANOUPOLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Ouskoudama was the Thracian name of the ancient city of Orestias and was preserved along with the name "Orestias" till the Roman times.
District of Adrianoupoli.
ENOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
A harbor town at the mouth of the Hebros (Maritza, Meric) river. Its
Thracian name was Poltyobria, after the legendary Thracian king Poltys (Strab.
7. frag. 52; Steph. Byz.), but the name Amos appears very early, associated with
the Trojan war (Il. 4.520). The name Apsinthos is also recorded (Steph. Byz.).
The town was resettled by Greek colonists from the Aeolic region (Alopekonessos,
Mytilene, Kyme) in the 7th c. B.C. It occupied a high ridge dominating a good
harbor at the river mouth, which has silted up so as to become almost unusable.
The abundant coinage of the city shows that it was a significant economic center,
but almost nothing is known of its history. The town is mentioned sporadically
in accounts of Athenian, Thracian, Macedonian, and Roman activity in the region,
but never in an important role.
The ancient site is presumed to be approximately coextensive with
the modern town. The acropolis is occupied by the mediaeval castle of the Gattilusi,
which probably incorporates any surviving fragments of Classical architecture.
No systematic survey or excavation has been done.
T. S. Mackay, 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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