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KOTYORA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Cotyora (ta Kotuora: Eth. Kotuorites, Steph. B. s. v.) and Cotyorum
(Plin. vi. 4), in Pontus. According to Xenophon (Anab. v. 5. § 4), a colony of
Sinope, which furnished supplies for the Ten Thousand in their retreat. It was
in the country of the Tibareni. The place was on the coast, and on a bay called
after the town. Strabo, where the name is written in a corrupt form, speaks of
it as a small place; and Arrian as a village, which was owing to the neighbouring
town of Pharnacia being supplied with part of its population from it. The Maritime
Itins. on this coast make the distance from Cotyora to the river Melanthius 60
stadia. Hamilton (Researches, &c. vol. i. p. 267) says: Cotyora perhaps stood
on the site of Ordou, where some remains of an ancient port cut out of the solid
rock are still visible. But he remarks that some writers suppose that Cotyora
was on the modern bay of Pershembah, which is certainly more sheltered than Ordou,
and its distance from the river Melanthius agrees better with the 60 stadia of
Arrian and the anonymous Periplus, than the site of Ordou.
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SIDI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Polemonium (Polemonion), a town on the coast of Pontus, at the mouth
of the small river Sidenus, 10 stadia from Phadisane, and 130 from Cape Iasonium.
(Arrian, Peripl. p. 16; Anonym. Peripl. p. 11, &c.; Ptol. v. 6. § 4; Steph. B.
s. v.) Pliny (vi. 4) places the town 120 Roman miles from Amisus, which seems
to be too great a distance. (Comp. Amm. Marc. xxii. 8; Hierocl, p. 702, where
it is erroneously called Tolemonion; Tab. Peuting.) Neither Strabo nor any writer
before him mentions this town, and it is therefore generally believed that it
was built on the site of the town of Side, which is not noticed by any writer
after Strabo. Its name intimates that it was founded, or at all events was named,
after one Polemon, perhaps the one who was made king of that part of Pontus, about
B.C. 36, by M. Antonius. It had a harbour, and seems to have in the course of
time become a place of considerable importance, as the part of Pontus in which
it was situated received from it the name of Pontus Polemoniacus. The town was
situated on the western bank of the Sidenus, where its existence is still attested
by the ruins of an octagon church, and the remains of a massive wall; but the
ancient name of the place is preserved by the village of Ponleman, on the opposite
side of the river. (Hamilton, Researches, vol. i. p. 270.)
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Side (Side: Eth. Sidetes), a town with a good harbour on the coast of Pamphylia, 50 stadia to the west of the river Melas, and 350 east of Attaleia. (Stud. Mar. Mag. § 214, fell.) The town was founded by Cumae in Aeolis. (Scylax, Peripl. p. 40; Strab. xiv. p. 667, comp. p. 664; Steph. B. s. v.;. Pomp. Mela, i. 15.) Arrian (Anab. i. 26), who admits the Cumaean origin of the place, relates a tradition current at Side itself, according to which the Sidetae were the most ancient colonists sent out from Cumae, but soon after their establishment in their new home forgot the Greek language, and formed a peculiar idiom for themselves, which was not understood even by the neighbouring barbarians. When Alexander appeared before Side, it surrendered and received a Macedonian garrison. In the time of Antiochus the Great, a naval engagement took place off Side between the fleet of Antiochus, commanded by Hannibal, and that of the Rhodians, in which the former was defeated. (Liv. xxxv. 13, 18, xxxvii. 23, 24.) Polybius (v. 73) states that there existed great enmity between the people of Side and Aspendus. At the time when the pirates had reached their highest power in the Mediterranean, they made Side their principal port, and used it as a market to dispose of their prisoners and booty by auction. (Strab. xiv. p. 664.) Side continued to be a town of considerable importance under the Roman emperors, and in the ultimate division of the province it became the metropolis of Pamphylia Prima. (Hierocl. p. 682; Concil. Const. ii. p. 240.) The chief divinity of this city was Athena, who is therefore seen represented on its coins, holding a pomegranate (side) in her hand. (Sestini, Num. Vet. p. 392, foil.; comp. Xenoph. Anab. i. 2. § 12; Cicero, ad Fam. iii. 6; Athen. viii. p. 350; Paus. viii. 28. § 2; Ptol. v. 5. § 2, viii. 17. § 31.) The exact site of ancient Side, which is now called Esky Adalia, as well as its remains, have been described by modern travellers. Beaufort (Karamania, p. 146, foll), who gives an excellent plan of the present condition of the place, states that the city stood on a low peninsula, and was surrounded by walls; the part facing the land was of excellent workmanship, and much of it is still perfect. There were four gates, one from the country and three from the sea. The agora, 180 feet in diameter, was surrounded by a double row of columns. One side of the square is at present occupied by the ruins of a temple and portico. The theatre appears like a lofty acropolis rising from the centre of the town, and is by far the largest and best preserved of any seen in Asia Minor. The harbour consisted of two small moles, connected with the quay and principal sea gate. At the extremity of the peninsula were two artificial harbours for larger vessels. Both are now almost filled with sand and stones, which have been borne in by the swell. The earliest coins of Side are extremely ancient; the inscriptions are in very barbarous characters, resembling the Phoenician, and the imperial coins exhibit the proud titles of lamprotate and endoxos. (Eckhel, vol. iii. pp. 44, 161; Spanheim, De Usu et Praest. Num. p. 879; Fellows, Asia Minor, p. 201; Leake, Asia Minor, p. 195, foll.)
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
(Polemonion). A city on the coast of Pontus, in Asia Minor, built by King Polemon (probably the second of the name), on the site of the older city of Side, and at the end of a deep gulf.
(Sida). The old name of Polemonium.
KOTYORA (Ancient city) TURKEY
A tributary colony of Sinope in Tibarenian territory, on the S coast
of the Black Sea (Pontos Euxeinos). The citizens were transferred to the new city
of Pharnakeia, ca. 48 km farther E, by Pharnakes I of Pontus (ca. 180 B.C.). Kotyora
itself declined into a small village. Traces of the port, cut in solid rock, were
formerly visible at Kiraz Limani, on the N side of Ordu.
D. R. Wilson, 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.
SIDI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Founded by Polemon I or (less probably) by Polemon II of Pontus in
Sidene, a coastal district formerly belonging to Amisos, at the mouth of the Bolaman
Irmagi (Sidenus fl.). Polemonion lay at the center of communications of the kingdom
of Polemon I, being linked by sea with Pharnakeia and Trapezous and by road with
Diospolis. A second inland route, leading to Armenia Minor, may have become important
during the reign of Pythodoris, whose possessions included Armenia Minor. After
Rome's annexation of the Pontic kingdom in A.D. 64-65 Polemonion ceased to have
more than local importance. Only Byzantine remains have been recorded. It had
a port 3 km W of the city at Fatsa (Phadissa or Phadisane), where there is an
exposed anchorage.
D. R. Wilson, 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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