The Historical Geography of Asia Minor (Volume 4) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1890. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... lists of the Delian Confederacy, to which only cities near the coast belong. It may bo beside Kos Bunar, where some remarkable archaic monuments exist. Euaza seems to be the same as Augaza in the 'Notitiee'; its site is unknown. Kolose is usually called Koloe or Kaloe in the 'Notitiee' and Councils; it is still named Keles. Algiza seems to be the same place as Argiza; I shall discuss it more fully below. Nikopolis is certainly the Nikaia of coins, one of the cities of the Kilbianoi. The inhabitants of the middle Kaystros valley were called Kaystrianoi, and of the upper valley Kilbianoi. Falaiapolis is still called Baliamboli, which is only the modern pronunciation of iraXaioi' 7rdtv. Baretta is unknown. All those cities appear in the' Notitise Episcopatuum' except Nikopolis and Algiza. In addition, the Thyraioi are mentioned in Not. iii.; this appears to be a false entry, as Thira is already mentioned under the name Arcadiopolis. The double entry arises from the carelessness with which the registers were kept. The official name had disappeared from common use, and the popular name Thyrea or Thyraia was added at the end. 4. Next, Hierocles gives the cities between the Kaystros and Hermos valleys. We have Auliou Kome, and Nea Aule, which is proved by the inscription published as No. ica in the Smyrna Mouseion, vol. i., p. 120, to have been not very far from Philadelpheia, probably in a glen of Mount Tmolos. Kolophon, Metropolis, Lebedos, Teos, Smyrna, Klazomenai, and Erythrai (mis-spelt Satrote), all belong to this group. 5. The following belong to the lower Hermos valley, Magnesia, Aigai (called Apae) J, and Temnos; the middle Hermos valley belongs to Byzantine Lydia. Ducas calls the river Hermon. The whole of groups 4 and 5 appear in the Notitire except Ai...