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MADYTOS (city in Thracian Chersonese)
Ancient city of Thrace in modern-day Turkey
- Kind of place
- City
- Region
- Thracian Chersonese
- Where
- 40.18° N, 26.36° E
Madytus is on the Chersonese near the Hellespont, located between Eleus and Sestos. Herodotus 7.33.1 According to one variant story, Artayctes was taken to a hill above this town for execution. Herodotus 9.120.4
Described in the sources
The distance from Eleus to the Bridge of Xerxes, which is near Madytus, is 170 stadia. Strabo 7.fragments.56