Selymbria (Greek: Σηλυμβρία),[1] or Selybria (Σηλυβρία),[2][3][4] or Selybrie (Σηλυβρίη),[5] was a town of ancient Thrace on the Propontis, 22 Roman miles east from Perinthus, and 44 Roman miles west from Constantinople,[6] near the southern end of the wall built by Anastasius I Dicorus for the protection of his capital.[7] Its site is located at Silivri in European Turkey.[8][9]
^Demosthenes, de Rhod. lib., p. 198, ed. Reiske.
^Xenophon. Anabasis. Vol. 7.2.15.
^Strabo. Geographica. Vol. vii p. 319. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.11.6.
^Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 6.33.
^Itin. Hier. p. 570, where it is called Salamembria.
^Procopius, de Aed. 4.9.
^Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 52, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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asklepieion of Kos, and took lessons from the Thracian physician Herodicus of Selymbria. Plato mentions Hippocrates in two of his dialogues: in Protagoras, Plato...
of aristocratic refugees, including the Patriarch, making their way to Selymbria: The peasants and common riff-raff jeered at those of us from Byzantium...
40 (1986), pp. 103–112 Later co-emperor from May 1381 to June 1385, in Selymbria and the coast of Marmara. Rival emperor since 1341, senior co-emperor...
others were killed in Chalcedon. The survivors were taken to Thrace in Selymbria, where, after being tortured in front of the Greek Emperor, were beheaded...
1379 (2 years, 10 months and 19 days) May 1381 – June 1385 (4 years, in Selymbria) Son of John V and grandson of John VI; named co-emperor and heir in 1352...
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