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CORLU (Town) TURKEY
Tzurulum (Tzouroulon, Procop. B. Goth. iii. 38; Anna Comn. vii. p. 215, x. p.
279; Theophyl. vi. 5; in Geog. Rav. iv. 6, and Tab. Peut., Suralluhm and Syrallum;
in It. Ant. pp. 138, 230, Izirallum, but in p. 323, Tirallum; and in It. Hier.
p. 569, Tunorullum), a strong town on a hill in the SE. of Thrace, not far from
Perinthus, on the road from that city to Hadrianopolis. It has retained its name
with little change to the present day, being the modern Tchorlu or Tchurlu.
PERINTHOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Perinthus (he Perinthos, Ptol. iii. 11. § 6, viii. 11. § 7; Xenoph.
Anab. vii. 2. § 8: Eth. Perinthios), a great and flourishing town of Thrace, situated
on the Propontis. It lay 22 miles W. of Selymbria, on a small peninsula (Plin.
iv. 18) of the bay which bears its name, and was built like an amphitheatre, on
the declivity of a hill (Diod. xvi. 76.) It was originally a Samian colony (Marcian,
p. 29; Plut. Qu. Gr. 56), and, according to Syncellus (p. 238), was founded about
B.C. 599. Panofka, however (p. 22), makes it contemporary with Samothrace, that
is about B.C. 1000. It was particularly renowned for its obstinate defence against
Philip of Macedon (Diod. xvi. 74-77; Plut. Phoc. 14). At that time it appears
to have been a more important and flourishing town even than Byzantium; and being
both a harbour and a point at which several main roads met, it was the seat of
an extensive commerce (Procop. de Aed. iv. 9). This circumstance explains the
reason why so many of its coins are still extant; from which we learn that large
and celebrated festivals were held here (Mionnet, i. p. 399-415; Eckhel, Doctr.
Num. vol. iv. p. 445; Morell. Spec. Rei Num, tab. xiii. 143). According to Tzetzes
(Chil. iii. 812), it bore at an early period the name of Mygdonia and at a later
one, but not before the fourth century of our era, it assumed the name of Heracleia;
which we find sometimes used alone, and sometimes with the additions H. Thraciae
and H. Perinthus. (Procop. l. c. and B. Vand. i. 12; Zosim. i. 62; Justin, xvi.
3 ; Eutrop. ix. 15; Amm. Marc. xxii. 2;. Itin. Ant. pp. 175, 176, 323; Jorn. de
Regn. Succ. p. 51, &c. On the variations in its name, see Tzschucke, ad Melam,
ii. 2, vol. iii. pt. ii. p. 102, seq.) Justinian restored the old imperial palace,
and the aqueducts of the city. (Procop. l. c.) It is now called Eski Eregli, and
still contains some ancient ruins and inscriptions.
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
VISSANTHI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Bisanthe (Bisanthe: Eth. Bisanthenos: Rodasto, or Rodostshig), a great
city in Thrace, on the coast of the Propontis, which had been founded by the Samians.
(Steph. B. s. v.; Herod. vii. 137; Pomp. Mela, ii. 2, 6; Ptol. iii. 11. § 6.)
About B.C. 400. Bisanthe belonged to the kingdom of the Thracian prince Seuthes.
(Xen. Anab. vii. 2. 38) At a later period its name was changed into Raedestum
or Raedestus (Hpaideston or Hpaidestos); but when this change took place is unknown.
In the 6th century of our era, the emperor Justinian did much to restore the city,
which seems to have fallen into decay (Procop. De Aedif. iv. 9); but after that
time it was twice destroyed by the Bulgarians, first in A.D. 813 (Simeon Magister,
Leon. Armen. 9, p. 614, ed. Bonn), and a second time in 1206. (Nicetas, Bald.
Fland. 14; Georg. Acropolita, Annal. 13.) The further history of this city, which
was of great importance to Byzantium, may be read in Georg. Pachymeres and Cantacuzenus.
It is generally believed that the town of Resistos or Resisto, mentioned by Pliny
(iv. 18), and in the Antonine Itinerary (p. 176), is the same as Bisanthe; but
Pliny mentions Bisanthe and Resistos as distinct towns. (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 25.)
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
PERINTHOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
An important town of Thrace on the Propontis, founded by the Samians about B.C. 559, and situated twenty-two miles west of Selymbria on a small peninsula. At a later time it was called Heraclea, and sometimes Heraclea Thraciae or Heraclea Perinthus.
VISSANTHI (Ancient city) TURKEY
A Thracian town on the Propontis, subsequently known as Rhaedestum, whence its modern name Rodosto.
CHARIOPOLIS (Ancient city) THRAKI
MYRIOFYTO (Town) MARMARA
A titular see of Thracia Prima and suffragan of Heraclea. The early
history of this city is not known. We find it mentioned for the first time in
connection with an earthquake which destroyed it in the year 1063 of our era (Muralt,
"Essai de chronologie byzantine", II, 8). It was visited by John Cantacuzene about
1350 (Hist., III, 76). As a suffragan of Heraclea we find it, under the title
of Peristasis and Myriophytum, mentioned first in a "Notitia episcopatuum"
of the end of the fifteenth century (Gelzer, "Ungedruckte . . . Texte der
Notitiae episcopatuum", 633). The title of Peristasis existed already in
1170 (Parthey, "Hieroclis Synecdemus", 103). In the sixteenth century
Myriophytum displaced Peristasis, and the diocese took the name of Myriophyturn
and Peristasis (Le Quien, "Oriens christianus", I, 1151). No change
has since taken place, except that among the Greeks in 1908 it was elevated to
an autocephalous metropolitan see. To-day Myriophytum is a rather busy port on
the Sea of Marmora; the city
numbers 5000 Greeks and 400 Turks. The schismatic archdiocese includes only ten
parishes with about 22,000 souls, of whom Peristasis alone includes about 6000.
S. Vailhe, ed.
Transcribed by: Joseph P. Thomas
This text is cited May 2004 from The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent online edition URL below.
PERINTHOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
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