Stryme
Sign in to saveStryme () was an ancient Greek city on the south coast of ancient Thrace, a little to the west of Mesembria, between which and Stryme flowed the small river Lissus, which the army of Xerxes I is said to have drunk dry. It was founded by colonists from Thasos; but disputes seem to have arisen respecting it between the Thasii and the people of the neighbouring city of Maroneia. In some sources, Stryme is called a Thasian polis bordering on Mesambria, but the account Herodotos provides is contradictory. Stryme was located in the Briantike, a region belonging to the Thracian Kikones.
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It is catalogued under topics including Former populated places in Greece, Ionian colonies in Thrace and Populated places in ancient Thrace.
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- Pauly–Wissowa
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- Στρύμη
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- Ancient Greece
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- Thrace
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Stryme () was an ancient Greek city on the south coast of ancient Thrace, a little to the west of Mesembria, between which and Stryme flowed the small river Lissus, which the army of Xerxes I is said to have drunk dry. It was founded by colonists from Thasos; but disputes seem to have arisen respecting it between the Thasii and the people of the neighbouring city of Maroneia. In some sources, Stryme is called a Thasian polis bordering on Mesambria, but the account Herodotos provides is contradictory. Stryme was located in the Briantike, a region belonging to the Thracian Kikones.
The location of the site is disputed; but many scholars locate it on the Molyvoti Peninsula near Cape Molyvote about southwest of Komotini. This site is being investigated by a synergasia between the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, represented by Princeton University, and the 19th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities (Komotini).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stryme” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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