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Aulocrene AUTHOR Svetlana Yanakieva YEAR 2020 A lake in Phrygia, not far from Apamea, (modern Çapalı Göl/Çapalı Bataklık/Karakuyu Gölü in Turkey’s Afyonkarahisar province), where the settlement of Aulocra/Aurokra, mentioned by later authors, is located. Pliny the Elder (Plin. NH 5, 113) is the only source to refer to it. He also informs us about a […]
Continue readingAuras AUTHOR Svetlana Yanakieva YEAR 2025 A tributary of the Istros. It is unclear which modern river it corresponds to. The name appears only once in Herodotus (Hdt. 4, 49). Tomaschek believes that in this text, Haemus refers to the mountainous region of the Agathyrsi, and Αὔρας may refer to today’s River Jiu in Romania, […]
Continue readingApsinthos AUTHOR Svetlana Yanakieva YEAR 2025 Ἂψινθος today Kavak Çayı, a small river in Southeastern Thrace, which flows into the Aegean Sea at Saros Bay in European Turkey. The name of the Thracian tribe of the Apsinthii, located by Herodotus in the area north of Chersonese, as well as the city of Ἂψινθος and the […]
Continue readingBillaios AUTHOR Svetlana Yanakieva YEAR 2020 Βιλλαῖος, a river in Bithynia, according to some ancient authors – on the border with Paphlagonia, modern Filyos Çay. Other variants of the name are Βίλλαος, Βίλλεος, Billis, Bilion и Byleum. The earliest records of the name come from Apollonius Rhodius (Ap. Rhod. 2, 791) and from inscriptions on coins of Tios […]
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