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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.
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
Total results on 11/5/2001: 8 for Kotyora, 5 for Cotyora.
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.
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