Bathys Rhyax

Bathys Rhyax, possibly also called Krya Pege, was a town of ancient Pontus on the road from Berissa to Sebasteia, inhabited during Byzantine times.[1] Anna Komnene mentions that the town had a shrine to the martyr Theodore.[2]

Its site is located 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Yıldızeli in Asiatic Turkey.[1][3]

References

  1. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 64, and directory notes accompanying.
  2. Anna Komnene, The Alexiad, 8.3.
  3. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

39°50′12″N 36°42′04″E


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