Arisba
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 39.239, 26.227
Why it was abandoned
☢️ Disaster
Detected automatically from the text: Pliny the Elder says it was destroyed by an earthquake.
History
Arisba or Arisbe was a town in ancient Lesbos, which Herodotus speaks of as being taken by the Methymnaei. Pliny the Elder says it was destroyed by an earthquake.