39°2′N 26°48′E / 39.033°N 26.800°E
Canae Κάναι | |
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Place in the Roman world | |
Province | Asia |
Nearby water | Aegean Sea (Dikili Gulf) |
Events | Battle of Arginusae |
Location | |
Coordinates | 39°2′19″N 26°48′53″E / 39.03861°N 26.81472°E |
Place name | Kane Promontory (Cane) |
Town | Bademli |
County | İzmir |
State | Dikili District |
Country | Turkey |
Site notes | |
Discovery year | 2015 |
Canae /ˈkeɪ.niː/ ( Ancient Greek: Κάναι; Turkish: Kane) was, in classical antiquity, a city in ancient Aeolis, on the island of Argennusa in the Aegean Sea off the modern Dikili Peninsula on the coast of modern-day Turkey, near the modern village of Bademli. [1] [2] Today Argennusa has joined the mainland as the Kane Promontory off the Dikili Peninsula. Canae is famous as the site of the Battle of Arginusae in 406 B.C. [1] [3] [4]
Canae is mentioned by the ancient writers Herodotus, Strabo, Pliny, Livy, Ptolemy, Sappho, Thucydides, and Mela. [5] [6]
According to the first-century Greek geographer Strabo, Canae was founded by Locrians coming from Cynus in eastern Greece. [5] [7] Canae was built on the island of Argennusa (also spelt Arginusa), beside a small promontory hill variously called Mount Cane /ˈkeɪ.niː/ ( Ancient Greek: Κάνη), Aega /ˈiːɡə/ (Αἰγᾶ), or Argennon /ɑːrˈdʒɛnən/ (Ἄργεννον). [5] [7] [8] The name Canae (Κάναι) means "(city) of Mount Cane"; the district that included Argennusa and the neighboring two islands of Garip and Kalem was called Canaea. [5]
According to the 5th-century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus, the massive Achaemenid army of Xerxes I passed Mount Cane on its way from Sardis to the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. [5] [9] [10]
During the Peloponnesian War, an Athenian fleet commanded by eight strategoi unexpectedly defeated a Spartan fleet under Callicratidas off the coast of Canae in 406 B.C. in the Battle of Arginusae. [6]
During the Roman–Seleucid War, fought between the Roman Republic and Antiochus the Great in 192–188 B.C., the Roman navy wintered in Canae on their way to Chios. [5] Livy writes that "the ships were hauled on shore and surrounded with a trench and rampart." [11]
By the time of Pliny the Elder in the first century A.D., the city was deserted. [5] [12]
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39°2′N 26°48′E / 39.033°N 26.800°E
Canae Κάναι | |
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Place in the Roman world | |
Province | Asia |
Nearby water | Aegean Sea (Dikili Gulf) |
Events | Battle of Arginusae |
Location | |
Coordinates | 39°2′19″N 26°48′53″E / 39.03861°N 26.81472°E |
Place name | Kane Promontory (Cane) |
Town | Bademli |
County | İzmir |
State | Dikili District |
Country | Turkey |
Site notes | |
Discovery year | 2015 |
Canae /ˈkeɪ.niː/ ( Ancient Greek: Κάναι; Turkish: Kane) was, in classical antiquity, a city in ancient Aeolis, on the island of Argennusa in the Aegean Sea off the modern Dikili Peninsula on the coast of modern-day Turkey, near the modern village of Bademli. [1] [2] Today Argennusa has joined the mainland as the Kane Promontory off the Dikili Peninsula. Canae is famous as the site of the Battle of Arginusae in 406 B.C. [1] [3] [4]
Canae is mentioned by the ancient writers Herodotus, Strabo, Pliny, Livy, Ptolemy, Sappho, Thucydides, and Mela. [5] [6]
According to the first-century Greek geographer Strabo, Canae was founded by Locrians coming from Cynus in eastern Greece. [5] [7] Canae was built on the island of Argennusa (also spelt Arginusa), beside a small promontory hill variously called Mount Cane /ˈkeɪ.niː/ ( Ancient Greek: Κάνη), Aega /ˈiːɡə/ (Αἰγᾶ), or Argennon /ɑːrˈdʒɛnən/ (Ἄργεννον). [5] [7] [8] The name Canae (Κάναι) means "(city) of Mount Cane"; the district that included Argennusa and the neighboring two islands of Garip and Kalem was called Canaea. [5]
According to the 5th-century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus, the massive Achaemenid army of Xerxes I passed Mount Cane on its way from Sardis to the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. [5] [9] [10]
During the Peloponnesian War, an Athenian fleet commanded by eight strategoi unexpectedly defeated a Spartan fleet under Callicratidas off the coast of Canae in 406 B.C. in the Battle of Arginusae. [6]
During the Roman–Seleucid War, fought between the Roman Republic and Antiochus the Great in 192–188 B.C., the Roman navy wintered in Canae on their way to Chios. [5] Livy writes that "the ships were hauled on shore and surrounded with a trench and rampart." [11]
By the time of Pliny the Elder in the first century A.D., the city was deserted. [5] [12]
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