Kotyora

Kotyora — Kotyora (Pontus), Pleiades 857200

KOTYORA (Ordu) Pontus, Turkey.

A tributary colony of Sinope in Tibarenian territory, on the S coast of the Black Sea (Pontos Euxeinos). The citizens were transferred to the new city of Pharnakeia, ca. 48 km farther E, by Pharnakes I of Pontus (ca. 180 B.C.). Kotyora itself declined into a small village. Traces of the port, cut in solid rock, were formerly visible at Kiraz Limani, on the N side of Ordu.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

W. J. Hamilton, Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Armenia (1842) I, 267.

D. R. WILSON