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GARGARA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Gargara or Gargaron, one of the heights of Mount Ida in Troas (Hom. Il. viii.
48, xiv. 292), which continued to bear this name even in the time of Strabo (xiii.;
comp. Plin. v. 32; Macrob. Sat. v. 20; Steph, B. s. v.). Its modern name is said
to be Kazdag. A town of the same name existed from early times upon that height,
or rather on a branch of it forming a cape on the north of the bay of Adramyttium,
between Antandrus and Assus. In the earliest times it is said to have been inhabited
by Leleges, but afterwards to have received Aeolian colonists from Assus, and
others from Miletupolis (Strab.; Mela, i. 18; Ptol.v. 2. 5). The name of this
town is in some authors misspelt Iarganon, as in Ptolemy, and Sagara, as in Hierocles.
The territory round Gargara was celebrated for its fertility (Virg. Georg. i.
103; Senec. Phoen. iv. 608). The modern village of Ine probably occupies the site
of ancient Gargara.
Gargara (ta Gargara). The southern summit of Mount Ida, in the Troad, with a city of the same name at its foot.
A titular see in the province of Asia, suffragan of Ephesus. The city appears to have been situated on Mt. Gargaron, the highest peak (1690 feet) of Mt. Ida, celebrated in Grecian mythology and the Homeric epic. It was at first inhabited by a colony from Assos, who were followed by people from Miletopolis. The grammarian Diotimes conducted a school here which was poorly attended by the uncultured inhabitants of Gargara. Three of the ancient bishops of Gargara were John, 518; Theodore, 553; and Ephrem, 878. Mt. Gargara is now known as Dikeli-Dagh, forming part of Kaz-Dagh, the ancient Ida. It has been thought that the city itself was discovered in the ruins of Akrili in the caza of Aivadjik and the sanjak of Bigha. Gargara must not be confused with the Jacobite bishopric of Gargar or Birta of Gargar, today Gerger, situated in the mountains west of the Euphrates and south of Malatia.
S. Vailhe, ed.
Transcribed by: Scott Anthony Hibbs
This text is cited Aug 2005 from The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent online edition URL below.
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