Cyme (Greek: Κύμη) or Cumae was an Aeolian city in Aeolis close to the kingdom of Lydia. It was called Phriconian, perhaps from the mountain Phricion in Aeolis, near which the Aeolians had been settled before their migration to Asia.

Cyme (Greek: Κύμη) or Cumae was an Aeolian city in Aeolis (Asia Minor) close to the kingdom of Lydia. It was called Phriconian, perhaps from the mountain Phricion in Aeolis, near which the Aeolians had been settled before their migration to Asia.

By the 8th century BC the Aeolians' twelve most important cities were independent. They formed a league of twelve cities (a Dodecapolis): Cyme (also called Phriconis), Larissa, Neonteichos, Temnos, Cilla, Notion, Aegiroessa, Pitane, Aegae, Myrina, Gryneion, and Smyrna. [2]

Cyme, near the modern Smyrna, was one of the ports that served the Phrygians during the centuries from 1000-700 B.C., when they dominated Asia Minor. Freya Stark studies the civilization of this ancient people, from whom the Greeks derived one …

Aug 21, 2023 · Cyme was one of the earliest cities established in the region and was the mother city of many of the towns in the Aiolis. Cyme was also the largest city of Aiolis during the Hellenistic period.

Cyme, the most important and powerful of the Aeolian cities (see aeolis) on the seaboard of *Asia Minor, occupying a naturally strong harbour site midway between the mouths of the Caicus and the *Hermus, and facing north-west towards *Lesbos.

Cyme (botany), an arrangement of flowers in a plant inflorescence; Cyme, a genus of moth; Matane/Russell-Burnett Airport, in Quebec, Canada

By the 5th century BC, Cyme was one of the 12 established Ionian colonies in Aeolis. Herodotus (4.138) mentions that one of the esteemed voters deciding whether or not to support Militiades the Athenian in his plan to liberate the Ionian Coast from Persian rule …

Cyme or Cumae was an Aeolian city in Aeolis close to the kingdom of Lydia. It was called Phriconian, perhaps from the mountain Phricion in Aeolis, near which the Aeolians had been settled before their migration to Asia.

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