Myndus
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Myndus () or Myndos () was an ancient Dorian colony of Troezen, on the coast of Caria in Asia Minor (Turkey), sited on the Bodrum Peninsula, a few miles northwest of Halicarnassus. The site is now occupied by the modern village of Gümüşlük.
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Myndus
- Ancient site.native_name
- Μύνδος
- Ancient site.image
- Myndos.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Myndos' Rabbit Island in modern Gümüşlük
- Ancient site.map_type
- Turkey
- Ancient site.map_size
- 285
- Ancient site.location
- Gümüşlük, Muğla Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- Caria
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Myndus () or Myndos () was an ancient Dorian colony of Troezen, on the coast of Caria in Asia Minor (Turkey), sited on the Bodrum Peninsula, a few miles northwest of Halicarnassus. The site is now occupied by the modern village of Gümüşlük.
==History== Myndos was protected by strong walls, and had a good harbor. (Paus. ii. 30. § 8; Strabo xiv. p. 658; Arrian, Anab. i. 20, ii. 5.) Otherwise, the place is not of much importance in ancient history. Both Pliny (v. 29) and Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.) mention Palaemyndus as an ancient Carian settlement near to Myndus, which seems to have become deserted after Dorian Mynduse was founded. (Comp. Strab. xiii. p. 611). Mela (i. 16) and Pliny (l. c.) also speak of Neapolis in the same peninsula and as no other authors mention such a place in that part of the country, it had been supposed that Myndus (the Dorian colony) and Neapolis were the same place. Pliny, however, mentions both Myndus and Neapolis as two different towns, and modern scholars differentiate the two.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Myndus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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