Singos
Singos ( Greek Σίγγος, Siggos) was an ancient city on the Chalkidike in northern Greece , which was on the isthmos of the Sithonia peninsula in the area of the present-day village of Agios Nikolaos . Singos is named for the bay, the Singitian Gulf , between the Sithonia peninsula and Athos .
The city is mentioned for the first time by Herodotus in his description of the war campaign of the Persian king Xerxes I in 480 BC. Against the rebellious Greeks. After the Persian Wars 480-479 BC Singos belonged to the Attic League with the supremacy of Athens and usually paid an annual tribute of 2 talents into the federal treasury. Probably with the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC. Like other cities of the Chalkidike, Singos left the covenant. This can be inferred from the fact that the city is not in the Attic tribute lists. In the following period, the population seems to have moved to the inland Olynthus , as in the tribute lists of the years 425 and 421 BC. BC Singos, which now belongs to Athens again, only had to pay an extremely small donation of 10 drachmas (1 talent = 6000 drachmas) to Athens. 421 BC BC the protagonists of the Peloponnesian War Athens and Sparta concluded the Peace of Nicias . According to the provisions of the peace treaty, Singos should be independent but pay tribute to Athens. To what extent Singos complied with the provisions of the peace treaty cannot be said, as there is no news whatsoever. The further course of the city's history is also in the dark due to a lack of sources. Singos seems to have been destroyed, however, as Strabo reported at the turn of the ages that the city was in ruins.
The exact location of Singos is not certain. The ancient historian Michael Zahrnt suspects Singos in the immediate area of today's village Agios Nikolaos on the sea coast (Pyrgi or between Pyrgi and Livrochio) of the Singitian Gulf. Villagers point to a Megas Teichos on the Livari peninsula north of Vourvourou; This position is considered very improbable by Zahrnt with reference to the rather small agriculturally usable area of the coastal plain of Vourvourou with reference to the relatively high tribute of the city of Singos for the Attic League. Systematic excavations or finds of ancient remains, which would allow a more precise position determination, are not available.
literature
- Michael Zahrnt: Olynthos and the Chalkidians. Studies on the formation of states on the Chalcidian Peninsula in the 5th and 4th centuries BC Chr. Beck, Munich 1971. pp. 226-9 (Vestigia, 14) ISBN 3-406-03097-1
Remarks
- ↑ Herodotus 7,122
- ↑ Thucydides 5:18
- ↑ Strabon 7,330 fragment 31