Dardanos (city)
Coordinates: 40 ° 5 ′ 6.7 ″ N , 26 ° 22 ′ 6.5 ″ E
Dardanos was an ancient Greek city of the Troad on the Asian bank of the Hellespont . It was near Ilion and 70 stadia south of the city of Abydos on today's Sehitlik Batarya .
Presumably the city was founded in the 7th century BC. Founded by Aeolians . From very early on in the city with its own coinage, were among the first coins electron - staters . During the Ionian Revolt , the city was conquered by the Persians. During the war between Athens and Sparta , the Spartans suffered a devastating defeat against the Attic-Delian League in the waters off the city .
In Hellenistic times, Dardanos was briefly under the control of the neighboring city of Abydos. During the disputes between the Romans and Antiochus III. the Dardanians took the side of the Romans, who also set up camp on the coast near the city. In gratitude, the Romans declared Dardanos a civitas libera , a free city. 85 BC Met in the city Sulla and Mithridates VI. together to negotiate an end to the 1st Mithridatic War .
The city existed until Byzantine times. It was abandoned in the Middle Ages and served as a quarry. Archaeologists were only able to make isolated ceramic and coin finds. The most important find to date was a burial mound found one kilometer south of the city, which contained rich objects. Numerous finds from this tumulus are exhibited in the Çanakkale Archaeological Museum .
During the First World War , the former urban area became the scene of bitter fighting ( Battle of the Dardanelles ), as can be seen from the remains of the Turkish coastal batteries and other military legacies. The Dardanelles got their name from Dardanos .
literature
- Hans Schwerteck: Dardanos [4] . In: The New Pauly . Volume 3 (1997), Col. 321.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Herodotus 5,117.
- ↑ Thucydides 8,104.
- ↑ Strabo 13: 1, 28.
- ↑ Titus Livius 38:39, 11.