Elaeus - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Elaeus - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Elaeus ( Elaious, later 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 (now the Dardanelles) near the southernmost point of the Thracian Chersonese (now the Gallipoli peninsula) 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 PhorbasPseudo Scymnus or Pausanias of Damascus, Circuit of the Earth, § 696 Read more on Wikipedia
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