Dionysopolis
Ancient city · Bulgaria
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 43.410, 28.163
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city on the Black Sea
History
Dionysupolis or Dionysoupolis or Dionysopolis or Dionysou polis was a town of ancient Thrace, later of Moesia, on the river Ziras. It was founded as a Thracian settlement in was founded in the 5th century BC, but was later colonised by the Ionian ancient Greeks and given the name Cruni or Krounoi (Κρουνοί). It was named Krounoi from the nearby founts of water. It was renamed as Dionysopolis after the discovery of a statue of Dionysus in the sea. Later it became a Greek-Byzantine and Bulgarian fortress. The town also bore the name Matiopolis.