A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ...to Arrian, who observes its port was very insecure. (p. 15. Marcian. p. 73.) Scylax also notices Carusa, and dignifies it with the title of Greek town. It answers to the station now called Kerze, unless this should be thought to represent the Gurzubanthon of the anonymous geographer, sixty staGazorum. dia from Carusa. Gazorum of the same geograZagora. pher is probably the Zagora of Arrian and Marcian, though they do not agree precisely in the distance; Arrian assigning 150 stadia from Carusa, Marcian 120, and the Anonymous Periplus 150 from Gurzubanthon. The latter writer states, that Gazorum was afterwards called Calippi. (p. 9.) In Ptolemy it is evident we should read Gazorum, instead of Galorum. I conceive the Orgibate of the Table to be the Gurzubanthon of the anonymous geographer. Zalecus From Zagora to the little river Zalecus, Marcian flimus. reckons 120 stadia; the anonymous geographer only ninety from Gazorum; which makes it still more doubtful whether we ought to identify those two places. Ptolemy writes the name of the river here spoken of, Zaliscus. It is, I imagine, the Helega of the Table. From thence to the great liver Halys, which forms the boundary of Paphlagonia, Marcian reckons 150 stadia, the Anonymous Periplus only 110. The course of the Halys will be described when we have to speak of Pontus and Cappadocia; we shall therefore now leave the coast, and proceed to describe the remaining part of Paphlagonia. The interior of Paphlagonia was divided, as appears from Strabo, into a number of small districts, some of which he names, but without defining accurately their positions or their extent. On the side of Bithynia he places the region called Timonitis, Timonitis and in succession the territory of Gezatorix and the districts called Marmol...