Ancient site· Silivri, İstanbul
Selymbria
Selymbria is a ancient site in Silivri, İstanbul; Selymbria (or Selybria) was a town of ancient Thrace on the Propontis, 22 Roman miles east of Perinthus and 44 Roman miles west of Constantinople, near the southern end of the wall built by Emperor Anastasius I to protect his capital.
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- 41.0785°N · 28.2477°E
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Selymbria (or Selybria) was a town of ancient Thrace on the Propontis, 22 Roman miles east of Perinthus and 44 Roman miles west of Constantinople, near the southern end of the wall built by Emperor Anastasius I to protect his capital. Its site is located at modern Silivri in European Turkey.
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This ancient Thracian city on the Marmara stood 22 Roman miles east of Perinthos and 44 west of Constantinople, close to the southern end of the wall the emperor Anastasius I built to defend his capital; its position matches modern Silivri. According to Strabo the name means the city of Selys. In 410 BC the townspeople refused to let Alcibiades' soldiers in, and soon afterwards lost the city to betrayal from within; Alcibiades then levied taxes and installed a garrison. For a period the city's name was changed to Eudoxiopolis.
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- The renaming honoured Eudoxia, wife of the emperor Arcadius, and stayed in official use for a long time, still current in the seventh century, before the original name was taken up again.
- Pliny the Elder records Selymbria as the birthplace of Prodikos, a student of Hippocrates.
- Demosthenes in 351 BC names the city as an ally of Athens, which shows it then belonged to the Byzantion confederation.
- The city had a small but notable mint, studied by the numismatist Edith Schönert-Geiß.
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