Sunday, July 8, 2012

Vithynia: Moudania


•Uluabat  (Apollonia) on Ryndakos lake is shallow with small islands.
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•Lake Uluabat : (Apollonias lake ad Rhyndacum), on its shores, very important because was along main trade routes. Today, Mustafakemalpasa (was Kirmaste)
•Apollonia ad R. was along the river, today Apolyont. The lake was called Apolloniatis. The town remains are small. Many small islands, one is called St. Constantine, there was a monastery, its ruins include an inscribed cross with apses to east and west.
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•The lost Delphic inscription with the commandments of Sosiadou (one of the Seven Sages) were found in Miletopolis and also at AiKhanoum in Afghanistan

•Moudanya (Mudanya)area : Kursunlu monastery

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•Zeytinbagi (= olive yard)  Triglia

•Triglia = red mullet  or Tri + ilya = 3 priests
•Ayion Theodoron church (Fatih camii)
•Taz Mektep – monastery from early 1900s
•Ruins of Byzantine churches
•Famous for olives
•Shipowner Filippos Kavounides born here
•People migrated to Rafina













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