Ancient site· Ayvacik, Çanakkale
Gargara
Gargara is a ancient site in Ayvacik, Çanakkale; Gargara was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of the Troad region in Anatolia.
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Gargara was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of the Troad region in Anatolia. Founded on the slopes of Mount Gargaron, one of the peaks of Mount Ida known today as Koca Kaya, it was moved in the 4th century BC to a coastal plain about 5.8 km to the south; both sites lie near Küçükkuyu in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale.
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Founded at the foot of Mount Gargaron, one of the three peaks of Kaz Dağı, known today as Koca Kaya, the city came down off the mountain in the fourth century BC and moved to the coastal plain 5.8 km to the south, near the villages of Arıklı and Nusratlı, a move excavation has not yet confirmed. The first site is called Old Gargara, and a Byzantine dictionary of about AD 1150 preserves a tradition that its people left to escape the cold of their old homes. In Homer an altar to Zeus stands on the summit of Gargaron, and the god comes down from Olympus to it to watch the Trojan war.
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- In the fifth century BC Gargara belonged to the Delian League and paid Athens between 4,500 and 4,600 drachmas.
- After Virgil used it in the Georgics, Gargara became a byword for agricultural abundance in Latin poetry; Ovid and Seneca used it the same way.
- The poet Aratus of Soli wrote an epigram for his friend Diotimos, who sat among the rocks teaching the alphabet to the children of Gargara.
- Both sites lie near Küçükkuyu in Ayvacık, Çanakkale; Demetrius of Scepsis relates that after settlers were forcibly moved in from Miletoupolis, almost no Aeolians were left in the city.
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