Listed 5 sub titles with search on: Various locations for destination: "PROPONTIS Sea TURKEY".
Pityodes (Pituodes), a small island in the Propontis off the coast
of Bithynia, near Cape Hyris, and 110 stadia to the north of Cape Acritas. (Plin.
v. 44; Steph. B. s. v. Pituoussai, who speaks of several islands of this name,
which is the same as Pituodeis.) The island is probably the one now called Bojuk
Ada, where Pococke (vol. iii. p. 147) found remains of an ancient town.
(Xerogupsos, Anna Comn. vii. 11, p. 378, Bonn), a small river in the SE. of Thrace,
which falls into the Propontis, not far from Perinthus. In some maps it is called
the Erginus, upon the authority of Mela (ii. 2).
(Linos), a place on the coast of Mysia, on the Propontis, between Priapus and
Parium ; it is noticed only by Strabo (xiii. p. 588), as the spot where the best
snails (kochliai) were found.
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