Βιζύη

Bizye, Bizue

Translated by Neel Smith13 Jan 2000Vetting: high6 revisions

3 words

A Thracian city.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Βιζύη· πόλις Θρᾳκική.

Betacode

*bizu/h: po/lis *qra|kikh/.

In the Asticus mountains, at the SW corner of the Black Sea (modern Turkey); Barrington Atlas map 52 grid B1.
Capital of the Astai, a tribe who provided kings for Thrace under the Romans.
Strabo 7a.1.48; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.