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Headword:
*neokaisa/reia
Adler number: nu,190
Translated headword: Neokaisareia, Neocaesarea, Kabeira
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A city, they say, of the Black Sea. The [citizens] of it [are] also [called] [H]adrianoupolitans. There is also [sc. a city of this name] in
Bithynia.[1]
*neokaisa/reia: *pontikh/, fasi/, po/lis. oi( au)th=s kai\ *)adrianoupoli=tai. e)/sti de\ kai\ *biquni/as.
Notes:
From
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v., citing the C2 antiquarian Phlegon of
Tralles (FGrH 257 F18) for the ethnikon.
The city in question -- present-day Niksar -- is more commonly known as Kabeira, in Pontus (modern Turkey). Its names included Cabira/ Neocaesarea/ Diospolis/
Sebaste/ Hadriane/ and presumably from this entry,
Hadrianopolis. See Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (at web address 1); Barrington Atlas map 87 grid B4.
A city of this name in
Syria is also attested: Barrington Atlas map 68 grid F2.
[1] Unlocated.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 July 2001@04:06:46.
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