Myndus [Myndos]

Ancient Myndos City is one of the important coastal settlement in Caria. Originally Myndus which was inhabited by Lelegians was founded by the Leleges according to Strabo. According to Greek tradition it was a Dorian colony of  people from the dynasty of King Aetios of Troizen¹. Myndus is located on the Cape Termerium near Halicarnassus, opposite to the Cape Scandaria of Kos Island as described by Strabo. As a member of the Delian League during the 5th century BC Myndos have to pay one twelfth of a talent as tribute.The city was besieged by Alexander in 334 BC; It was captured a year later by Alexander's commander, Orontobades. Later became a Ptolemies` city. In 197 B; the city became independent (under the protection of Rhodes) and minted her first coins. Then belonged to the Kingdom of Pergamon and in 133 BC was incoroprated to Rome. During the Byzantine period called Amyndos.

See:

1. George E. Bean, Turkey Beyond the Maeander. An Archaeological Guide, London Ernest Jersey 1971, p.116 -119
2. Strabo 14; 2
3. G. E. Bean, J. M. Cook and W. H. P.. “The Halicarnassus Peninsula.” The Annual of the British School at Athens, vol. 50, 1955, pp. 85–171, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30104444. Accessed 9 May 2022.
4. http://www.tayproject.org/TAYages.fm$Retrieve?CagNo=5297&html=ages_detail_e.html&layout=web
5. /A_New_Discovery_in_the_Myndos_Underwater_Research_West_Harbour_MYNDOS_SUALTI_ARA%C5%9ETIRMALARINDA_YEN%C4%B0_B%C4%B0R_KE%C5%9E%C4%B0F_BATI_L%C4%B0MANI
6. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.

References

1. ↑Many years afterwards the descendants of Aetius, son of Anthas, were dispatched as colonists from Troezen, and founded Halicarnassus and Myndus in Caria.