Genetes
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.017, 37.830
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient river port on the Black Sea
History
Genetes was a harbour town on the Black Sea coast of ancient Pontus near Cotyora. The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax calls it Genesintis (Γενέσιντις). There were a river and promontory of the same name.