Ancon
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.374, 36.632
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Pontus in modern-day Turkey
History
Ancon or Ankon was a populated place of ancient Pontus, on the Black Sea and on the coast road east of Amisus. It was on a headland and bay both of the same name. It is mentioned by Gaius Valerius Flaccus in his Argonautica, after the Iris, as if it were east of the mouth of that river. Apollonius Rhodius simply speaks of it as a headland.