Tios
Coordinates: 41 ° 34 ′ 13 ″ N , 32 ° 1 ′ 55 ″ E
Tios (Τίος; originally Τιεῖον / Tieíon, Latin forms Tium, Tieium and Teium.) Was an ancient place on the south coast of the Black Sea in Asia Minor in what is now Turkey . Tios was on the Bithynian - Paphlagonian border below the present day Filyos and west of the mouth of the Billaios .
history
There are various literary traditions about the origins of the city. Miletus is said to be in the 7th century. v. Founded the colony. Other sources attribute the founding to Thracian Kaukonen and a third variant ascribes the founding of Pataros , also a Thracian who had conquered all of Paphlagonia from Europe.
The city later came under the rule of Herakleia Pontike . Around 300 BC Tios was dissolved with three other localities by the Persian noblewoman Amastris and merged into the city of Amastris named after her ( called Synoikismos ). The amalgamation was reversed by Lysimachus and Eumenes, the brother of the Attalid Philetairus , became the new ruler of the city. After 281 BC BC Zipoites of Bithynia conquered the area. The city was bought back by Herakleia Pontike. Prusias I seized it in his wars against Pergamon and Herakleia Pontike. From then on, Tios was part of Bithyn history.
Tios coined for the first time under Nicomedes III. Coins. This activity is documented up to the time of the Roman Republic and Imperial times.
Sources
The oldest items found include Greek pottery, which dates back to the 6th century. Remains of the former harbor, building ruins and substructures of a theater have been preserved. Inscriptions have come down to us from the Roman Empire. Tios is one of the mints of which one of the rare sesterces with a Greek counterstamp from the Roman Empire has been preserved.
literature
- Christian Marek : Tios. in: Der Neue Pauly, edited by: Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider (antiquity), Manfred Landfester (history of reception and science). Tios. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
- Ernst Wüst : Tios. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI A, 2, Stuttgart 1932, Sp. 1411.
- Wolfram Weiser : Catalog of the Bithynian coins from the collection of the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne. Vol. 1, Springer Verlag, Wiesbaden 1983. ISBN 3663143937 , ISBN 9783663143932 .
Individual notes
- ↑ Wolfgang Leschhorn: The imperial coins of Asia Minor: On the possibilities and difficulties of their statistical recording. In: Revue numismatique, 6e série - Tome 27, année 1985 pp. 200–216, here p. 207.
- ^ A b Roman Empire, Caracalla, Sesterz, counterstamp of Tion in Bithynia. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .