Dascylium

For other places with the same name, see Dascylium (disambiguation).
The location of Hellespontine Phrygia, and the provincial capital of Dascylium, in the Achaemenid Empire, c. 500 BC.

Dascylium, Dascyleium, or Daskyleion (Ancient Greek: Δασκύλιον, Δασκυλεῖον), also known as Dascylus,[1] was a town in Anatolia some 30 kilometres (19 mi) inland from the coast of the Propontis, at modern Ergili, Turkey. Its site was rediscovered in 1952 and has since been excavated.[2]

  1. ^ Pomponius Mela. De situ orbis. Vol. 1.19.
  2. ^ Dascylium (Ergili)