Chelidoniae Islands (Lycia) 40 Besadalar - Χελιδονίαι

Χελιδονίαι - Chelidoniae, five islands off Cape Chelidon, the modern Besadalar off Gelidonya burnu
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Latitude: 36.177100
Longitude: 30.407200
Confidence: High (20151016)

Greek name: Χελιδονίαι
Place ID: 362304IChe
Time period: R
Region: Lycia
Country: Turkey
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Mod: Besadalar

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Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica§3.233  In Melanippion on the mountain-ridge, Athena's fane, which Massikyton fronts Anigh Chelidonia 's headland, dreaded sore Of scared seafarers, when its lowering crags Must -1000
Plutarch, Life of Cimon§Cim.12.2  afraid to enter at all the sea to the west of the Chelidonian isles, he set sail from Cnidus and Triopium with two hundred triremes. -467
Plutarch, Life of Cimon§Cim.13.4  a day, and was not to sail west of the Cyanean and Chelidonian isles with armoured ships of war. [5] And yet Callisthenes denies that -467
Plutarch, Life of Cimon§Cim.13.4  Pericles with fifty, and Ephialtes with only thirty, ships sailed beyond the Chelidonian isles without encountering any navy of the Barbarians. -467
Pseudo Scylax, Periplous§100  the voyage is up the river. Then Gagaia, a city; then the Chelidoniai, a promontory with two islands; and Dionysias island; the promontory and -350
Demosthenes 19, On the False Embassy§273  of the coast, nor sail with a ship of war between the Chelidonian islands and the Blue Rocks. At the inquiry into his conduct they -343
Antigonus, Compilation of Marvellous Accounts (1-77)§126  surface of the Sea of Thrace below Hieron Oros. The sea below Chelidonia has sweet springs over a large area. 130(145) He says that Theophrastus -300
Livy, History of Rome§33.20  message to the king forbidding him to sail beyond the promontory of Chelidonia in Cilicia, a place rendered famous by its being mentioned in an -197
Livy, History of Rome§33.41  voyage as far as Cyprus. When he had rounded the promontory of Chelidoniae he was for some time delayed in Pamphylia near the river Eurymedon -196
Strabo, Geography§11.12.2  nor height, but it first rises to a considerable height opposite the Chelidoniae, which are islands at the beginning of the coast of Pamphylia, -1
Strabo, Geography§14.2.1  Maeander River. For it is said that the mountains situated above the Chelidonian islands, as they are called, which islands lie off the confines of -1
Strabo, Geography§14.3.8  Then one comes to the promontory Hiera and to the Chelidoniae, three rugged islands, which are about equal in size and are -1
Strabo, Geography§14.3.8  parts near Pisidia; and this tract too is called the Taurus. The Chelidoniae are likewise thought to lie approximately opposite to Canobus; and the passage -1
Strabo, Geography§14.5.22  are unequal in length, one of them extending from Cilicia to the Chelidonian Islands, another from the Chelidonian Islands to the mouth of the Euxine, -1
Strabo, Geography§14.5.22  of them extending from Cilicia to the Chelidonian Islands, another from the Chelidonian Islands to the mouth of the Euxine, and the third thence back -1
Strabo, Geography§14.5.22  speaks of 'the side that extends from Issus as far as the Chelidonian Islands,' for there still remains to this side the whole of the -1
Strabo, Geography§14.6.2  to Side in Pamphylia is one thousand sixteen hundred and to the Chelidonian islands one thousand nine hundred. The shape of the island as a -1
Pomponius Mela, Chorographia§2.102  by — directly opposite the spur of the Taurus Range are called Chelidonian . Cyprus runs in an east-west direction into the biggest gulf that -1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History (37 books)§2.227  drawn from the sea in a great many places, as at the Chelidoniae islands and at Aradus and in the Gulf of Cadiz. Green grass -1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History (37 books)§5.97  from the eastern shores, terminates the vast Gulf by the Promontory of Chelidonium . Of immense extent, and separating nations innumerable, after taking its first -1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History (37 books)§5.131  Dionysia, formerly called Charaeta. Opposite to the Promontory of Taurus are the Chelidoniae, as many in number, and extremely dangerous to mariners. Further on -1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History (37 books)§6.206  seventy-five, to Rhodes one hundred and eighty-seven and a half, to the Chelidonian Islands the same distance, to Cyprus two hundred and twenty-five, and from -1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History (37 books)§9.85.1  that I notice to have won general acceptance. We have mentioned the Swallow Islands, situated off a promontory of Mt. Taurus in the rocky sea -1
Dionysius of Alexandria, Guide to the Inhabited World§12  its waters the Pamphylians dwell, as far as the corners of the Chelidonian islands reach. It has as its boundary in the west the far summit -1
Dionysius of Alexandria, Guide to the Inhabited World§50  land of the Ialysian men. After this to the east are the Chelidoniae, three islands inside the great promontory of Patara. To the east, -1
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