Crithote or Krithote ( Ancient Greek: Κριθωτή or Κριθώτη) was an ancient Greek [1] city located in Thrace, located in the region of the Thracian Chersonesos. It was on the Hellespont north of Gallipolis, and was an Athenian colony founded by Miltiades. [2] [3] It is cited in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax among the cities of the Thracian Chersonesos: Aegospotami, Cressa, Crithote, and Pactya. [4]
At the time of Strabo it was in ruins. The geographer places it between the cities of Callipolis and Pactya. [5] Pliny the Elder, for his part, says it was adjacent to the Propontis, where were also the cities of Tiristasis and Cissa. [6]
Isocrates highlights the excellent situation, from the strategic point of view, of the city, as a point of control of the Hellespont. Wherefore, the year 365 BCE, it was conquered, along with Sestos, by the Athenians under the command of Timotheus. [7]
Bronze coins minted by Crithote are preserved, dated between 350 BCE and 281 BCE, with the inscriptions ΚΡΙ, ΚΡΙΘΟ o ΚΡΙΘΟΥΣΙΩΝ. [1]
Its site is located 2 miles (3 km) east of Gelibolu, in Çanakkale Province, Turkey. [8] [9]
See also
References
- ^ a b Mogens Herman Hansen and Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thracian Chersonese". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 907–908. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
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William Hazlitt (1851).
Classical Gazetteer. London. p. 124.
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- ^ Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax, p. 67.
- ^ Strabo VII, fragment 55.
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History, IV, 18.
- ^ Isocrates XV, 108; XV, 112.
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 51, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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