Nagidos, according to the Greek tradition was colonized by Samians or citizen of Rhodos. The first name of the city is Nagidos, after its founder, Nagis. The site Pasha Beleni Hill (Paşa Beleni Tepesi) was first inhabited by Greeks in the fifth century BC. Just south of the city, which has wall ruins in places, is Tagiduda Island, which was inhabited later. Nagidos was under the Persian dominance during the 5th and 4th centuries. Later during the Hellenistic Period it was under the influence of Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egyp. The city was abandoned towards the middle of the second century BC ravaged by pirates attacks.
Nagidos was a trade center with her small harbour used for commercial purposes. The city cemetery is located on the sea shore on the plain to the west of the hill.
See:
- Strabo, Geographica 14.5.3 - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.+14.5.3
- Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis 1.13.77 - Pomponius Mela, Frank E. Romer: Pomponius Mela's Description of the World, University of Michigan Press, 1998, p. 56