Abydos (Greek: Άβυδος), an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nara Burnu or Nagara Point on the best harbor on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont. Mysia (Μυσία was a region in the northwest of ancient Asia Minor or Anatolia (part of modern Turkey) Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black See also Dardanelles Hellespont ( Turkish, Greek; ie "Sea of Helle" variously named in classical literature Hellespontium Pelagus Across Abydos lies Sestus on the European side marking the shortest point in the Dardanelles, scarcely a mile broad. Sestos was an ancient town of the Thracian Chersonese, the modern Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey. See also [[Hellespont]] The Dardanelles ( Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı Greek: Δαρδανέλλια Dardanellia) formerly The strategic site has been a prohibited zone in the twentieth century.
Abydos was first mentioned in the catalogue of Trojan allies (Iliad ii. The Iliad ( Greek: Ἰλιάς (Ancient Ιλιάδα (Modern is together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient 836). It probably was a Thracian town, as Strabo has it, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians, with the consent of Gyges, king of Lydia, around 700 BC. Thrace (Тракия Trakiya or "Trakija" or Trakia, Θράκη Thráki, Trakya is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe Strabo ( Greek: Στράβων 63/64 BC – ca AD 24 was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. Miletus (mī lē' təs ( Ancient Greek: Μίλητος literally Transliterated Milētos, Latin Miletus) was an Ancient Gyges (Γύγης was the founder of the third or Mermnad dynasty of Lydian kings and reigned from 716 BC to 678 BC (or from c It was occupied by the Persians in 514 BC, and Darius burnt it in 512. Events and trends 519 BC — Zhou Jing Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. Events and trends 519 BC — Zhou Jing Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. Here Xerxes built two bridges of boats and crossed the strait in 480 BC when he invaded Greece. Xerxes I of Persia was a King of Persia (reigned 485–465 BC of the Achaemenid dynasty. Events By place Greece May — King Xerxes I of Persia marches from Sardis and onto Thrace [1]
Abydos thereafter became a member of the Delian League, until it revolted from Athenian rule in 411 BC. The Delian League was an association of approximately 150 5th-century BC Greek City-states under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue Events By place Greece The Democracy of Athens is overthrown by the oligarchic extremists Antiphon, [2] It allied itself to Sparta, until 394 BC; King Agesilaus of Sparta crossed here while returning to Greece. The city of Sparta ( Doric Σπάρτα Attic Σπάρτη Events By place Greece The allies Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos, gather a large army at Corinth Agesilaus ( Greek) was a Greek historian who wrote a work on the early history of Italy fragments of which are preserved in Plutarch 's "Parallel Lives" Abydos then passed under Achaemenid rule, until 334 BC. The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenid Persian Empire ( haχɒmaneʃijɒn (558–330 BC was the first of the Persian Empires to rule over significant portions of Events By place Persian Empire The king of Caria, Pixodarus, dies and is succeeded by his son-in-law Orontobates. Alexander the Great threw a spear to Abydos while crossing the straight and claimed Asia as his own. Alexander the Great ( or, Mégas Aléxandros; July 20 356 BC June 10 or June 11 323 BC also known as Alexander III of Macedon (el Ἀλέξανδρος Γ'
Abydos is celebrated for the vigorous resistance it made against Philip V of Macedon in 200 BC,[3] and is famed in myth as the home of Leander. Philip V ( Greek Φίλιππος Ε΄) (238 BC - 179 BC was King of Macedon from 221 BC to 179 BC Events By place Seleucid Empire Antiochus III's forces continue their invasion of Coele Syria and Palestine. Hero and Leander is a Greek myth, relating the story of Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos, at the edge of the It minted coins from the early fifth century BC to the mid-third century AD.
The town remained until late Byzantine times an important toll and customs station of the Hellespont, its importance thereafter being transferred to the Dardanelles, after the building of the "Old Castles" by Sultan Mehmet II (c. See also [[Hellespont]] The Dardanelles ( Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı Greek: Δαρδανέλλια Dardanellia) formerly 1456).
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- ^ Herodotus. Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( Greek: Hēródotos Halikarnāsseús) was a Greek Historian who lived in the 5th century BC ( 484 BC&ndash Histories, 7. The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. 34.
- ^ Thucydides. Thucydides ( C 460 BC &ndash C 395 BC) ( Greek Θουκυδίδης Thoukydídēs) was a Greek History of the Peloponnesian War, 8.61-2. The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by
- ^ Polybius. Polybius (ca 203 &ndash 120 BC, Greek) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his book called The Histories The Histories, 16.29-34
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. Polybius ’ The Histories were originally written in 40 volumes only the first five of which are extant in their entirety The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone
- Richard Stillwell, ed. Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, 1976: "Abydos, (Naara Point) Turkey"
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