Chadisia
Chadisia was a town of ancient Pontus, not far from the coast on a river of the same name.[1][2] Its site is located near Karabahçe in Asiatic Turkey.[3][4]
Variants
Location
Its site is located near Karabahçe in Asiatic Turkey.[5][6]
Jat Place Namesake
History
Hecataeus, quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium, speaks of Chadisia as a city of the Leucosyri, that is, of the group the Persians called the Cappadocians; and he says, "the plain Themiscyra extends from Chadisia to the Thermodon." Menippus, in his Periplus of the two Ponti, also quoted by Stephanus, says: "from the Lycastus to the village and river Chadisius is 150 stadia, and from the Chadisius to the river Iris 100 stadia."[7]
Mention by Pliny
Pliny [8] mentions.... In the interior (of Cappadocia) also there is the famous river Ceraunus,19 and on the coast beyond the town of Amisus, the town and river of Chadisia,20 and the town of Lycastum,21 after which the region of Themiseyra22 begins.
19 It is doubtful whether this is the name of a river or a town. Notwithstanding its alleged celebrity, nothing is known of it.
20 Hecatæus, as quoted by Stephanus Byzantinus, speaks of Chadisia as a city of the Leucosyri, or Cappadocians. Neither the river nor the town appears to have been identified.
21 Probably on the river of that name, which has been identified with the Mers Imak, a river two or three miles east of the Acropolis of Amisus.
22 The extensive plain on the coast of Pontus, extending east of the river Iris, beyond the Thermodon, and celebrated as the country of the Amazons. At the mouth of the Thermodon was a city of the same name, which had been destroyed by the time of Augustus. It is doubtful whether the modern Thermeh occupies its site.
References
- ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 6.3.
- ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 87, and directory notes accompanying.
- ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 87, and directory notes accompanying.
- ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ↑ Natural History by Pliny Book VI/Chapter 3
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