Hamaxitus - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Hamaxitus - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Hamaxitus () was an ancient Greek city in the south-west of the Troad region of Anatolia which was considered to mark the boundary between the Troad and Aeolis.Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.124. Its surrounding territory was known in Greek as (Hamaxitia),Strabo 10.3.21. and included the temple of Apollo Smintheus, the salt pans at Tragasai, and the Satnioeis river (modern Tuzla Çay).See below, History. The plain around the salt pans at Tragasai was known in Classical Antiquity as (Halesion pedion), 'the salt plain'. It has been located on a rise called Beşiktepe near the village of Gülpınar (previously Külahlı) in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale Province, Turkey.Cook (1973) 231. Read more on Wikipedia
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