(Ἄβυδος; Ábydos).
[1] City at the narrowest part of the Dardanelles
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Miletus founded A. as a polis in the 1st half of the 7th cent. BC, by permission of the Lydian king Gyges (Str. 13,1,22). It is situated at the narrowest part of the Dardanelles, on the Asian shore, 5 km east of Çanakkale on the promontory of Cape…