Elaeus
Vanished settlement · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.054, 26.223
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: Согласно географу Скимну, Элеунт был основан переселенцами из ионийского Теоса, в то время как Псевдо-Скимн пишет, что он был афинской колонией, основанной Форбом.
History
Elaeus, the “Olive City”, was an ancient Greek city located in Thrace, on the Thracian Chersonese. Elaeus was located at the southern end of the Hellespont near the southernmost point of the Thracian Chersonese in modern-day Turkey. According to the geographer Scymnus, Elaeus was founded by settlers from Ionian Teos, while the Pseudo-Scymnus writes that it was a colony of Athens and was founded by Phorbas.