Histria
Ancient city · Romania
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 44.547, 28.775
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient Greek city on the western coast of the Black Sea
History
Histria or Istros was founded as a Greek colony or polis on the western coast of the Black Sea near the mouth of the Danube whose banks are today about 70 km away. In antiquity, it also bore the names Istropolis, Istriopolis, and Histriopolis or simply Istros/Histros (Ἴστρος). It is now located on the inland shore of a Black Sea lagoon, Lake Sinoe, north of Năvodari and near the modern town of Istria, province of Dobruja, Romania.