Teion known also as Tium, Teium, Tieium, Tius, Teion, Tieion, Tion, Tios and Filyos was a Miletan colony founded in the VII century BC in Paphlagonia. At the beginning of the III century BC, together with Cromna, Cytorus, and Sesamus, Tium was incorporated to the new city of Amastris. Of these four , Tium alone, ca 282 BC, recovered its autonomous status as recorded Strabo: Amastris was the wife of Dionysius the tyrant of Heracleia and the daughter of Oxyathres, the brother of the Dareius whom Alexander fought. Now she formed the city out of four settlements, Sesamus and Cytorum and Cromna (which Homer mentions in his marshalling of the Paphlagonian ships and, fourth, Tieium. This last, however, soon revolted from the united city, but the other three remained together; and, of these three, Sesamus is called the acropolis of Amastris1.
See:
- Strabo, Geography, Book XII, Chapter 3. 10, Loeb Classical Library edition 1928
- TIOS or Tion or Tieion (Filyos) Turkey. in: Richard Stillwell eds., The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton University Press. 1976.
- Bülent Öztürk: “Tios'tan Filyos'a Kentin Adı (The name of the city from Tieion / Tios to Filyos)", Sümer Atasoy – Şahin Yıldırım (ed.), Zonguldak’ta Bir Antik Kent: Tios. 2006–2012 Arkeolojik Çalışmaları ve Genel Değerlendirme, Ankara 2015, pp. 28–43.
- idem: The History of Tieion/Tios (Eastern Bithynia) in the light of Inscriptions, M. Manoledakis (ed.), Exploring the Hospitable Sea. Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity held in in Thessaloniki, 21–23 September 2012, Oxford 2013, pp. 147-164
- Vanessa B. Gorman, Miletos, the Ornament of IoniaA History of the City to 400 B.C.E., University of Michigan 2011, p. 70
References
- ↑Strabo, Geography, Book XII, Chapter 3. 10