Κράτεια

Krateia, Crateia

Translated by Nicholas Fincher31 Jul 2003Vetting: high3 revisions

4 words

Name of a city

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κράτεια· ὄνομα πόλεως.

Betacode

*kra/teia: o)/noma po/lews.

In Bithynia; present-day Gerede in NW Turkey. It was also known as Flaviopolis, Agrippeia? and Kreteia. Mentioned by Claudius Ptolemy 5.1.14. See Barrington Atlas map 86 grid C3.
Galen (in book 3 of De alimentorum facultatibus) apparently calls it Krateia Klaudiopolis, but this may be an error.

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