"Pegae" redirects here. For the harbour town of ancient Megaris, see
Pagae . For the ancient Greek city at Thrace, see
Pegae (Thrace) .
Municipality in Çanakkale, Turkey
Karabiga
[2] (Karabuga
[3] ) is a town (
belde ) in the
Biga District ,
Çanakkale Province , Turkey.
[4] Its population is 2,962 (2021).
[1] It is located at the mouth of the
Biga River , on a small east-facing
bay , known as Karabiga Bay.
[5] Its ancient name was Priapus or Priapos (
Ancient Greek : Πρίαπος ).
[6]
History
Originally a town of
ancient Mysia , it was a colony of
Miletus or of
Cyzicus .
[7] It had a good harbour.
Strabo mentions that the area produced fine wine and that the god
Priapus gave the town its ancient name.
[8]
Thucydides mentions the town as a naval station.
[9]
Arrian reports that in 334 BCE
Alexander the Great sent
Panegorus to take possession of the city and the city surrendered without contest, prior to the
Battle of Granicus .
[8]
[10] Besides the aforementioned authors, the town was noted by numerous ancient writers and geographers including
Pomponius Mela ,
[11]
Pliny the Elder ,
[12]
Stephanus of Byzantium ,
[13] and the
Geographer of Ravenna .
[14]
Under the
Eastern Roman Empire , the town was known as Pegae or Pegai (Πηγαί)
[15] and was the site of a Byzantine fortress.
[16]
During the
Allied occupation following
World War I , Karabiga was part of the lands that were claimed by
Anzavur Ahmed Pasha in
his attempt to keep the area from the Turkish nationalists . He was killed just outside Karabiga in April 1921 by Turkish nationalists aligned with Arnavud Rahman.
[17]
References
^
a
b
"Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2021" (XLS) (in Turkish).
TÜİK . Retrieved 1 March 2023 .
^
Karabiğa (Approved) at
GEOnet Names Server ,
United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
^
Karabuga (Variant) at
GEOnet Names Server ,
United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
^
Belde Belediyesi , Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
^
Karabiğa Limanı (Approved) at
GEOnet Names Server ,
United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
^
Priapus (Variant) at
GEOnet Names Server ,
United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Smith, William , ed. (1854–1857). "Priapus".
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London: John Murray.
^
a
b
Strabo .
Geographica . Vol. xiii. p. 587. Page numbers refer to those of
Isaac Casaubon 's edition.
^
Thucydides .
History of the Peloponnesian War . Vol. 8.107.
^
Arrian
Campaigns of Alexander I, 13
^
Pomponius Mela . De situ orbis . Vol. 1.19.
^
Pliny .
Naturalis Historia . Vol. 4.24, 5.40.
^
Stephanus of Byzantium . Ethnica . Vol. s.v. Πρίαπος.
^
Ravenna Cosmography 2.18.
^ Norwich, John Julius (2006) The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean Doubleday, New York,
page 103 ,
ISBN
978-0-385-51023-3
^ Setton, Kenneth M.; Hazard, Harry W. and Zacour, Norman P. (1980) A History of the Crusades: The Impact of the Crusades on Europe University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin,
page 241 ,
ISBN
978-0-299-10744-4
^ Gingeras, Ryan (2009) Sorrowful Shores: Violence, ethnicity, and the end of the Ottoman Empire, 1912-1923 Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, pages
106 and
118 ,
ISBN
978-0-19-956152-0