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Byzantium | Colonization | Pergamum
(Κίος; Kíos). Port town in the eastern part of the Gulf of Propontis (which is named after it) on the river of the same name, modern Gemlik. C. was the starting-point of the roads to Nicaea and Prusa. According to Apoll. Rhod. 4,1470, a foundation of the Argonauts ( Argonautae, map), coins show Hercules as the founder of the city (HN 512-514); according to Plin. HN 5,144 founded by Milesians. C. participated in the Ionian Revolt (Hdt. 5,122) and was, as the only town in east Propont…