Gargara (city)
Coordinates: 39 ° 32 ' N , 26 ° 33' E
Gargara ( Greek Γάργαρα ), also Gargaris ( Γαργαρίς ), was an ancient city in the Asia Minor region of Troas on the coast of the Gulf of Adramyttion , south of the present-day village of Arıklı in northwestern Turkey.
The city was located on a foothill (today's name Koca Kaya ) of the Ida Mountains , from whose highest point, which was also called Gargara (today the Kaz Dağı ), it had received its name, between Antandros and Assos .
Gargara is considered to be an Aeolian foundation. The city belonged in the 5th century BC. To the Attic League . In the Hellenistic period, the settlement was (partially) moved to the coast and strengthened by relocating from Miletoupolis . Gargara was still important as a port in the Roman Empire.
On the sunken Byzantine bishopric Gargara the titular goes Gargara back of the Roman Catholic Church.
literature
- Gargara . In: William Smith: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London 1854 ( online ).
- Elmar Schwertheim : Gargara, Gargaris. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , Col. 784.
- Hans Treidler: Gargara. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 697.