Myus (Cilicia)

Myus or Myous (Ancient Greek: Μυούς) was a town on the coast of ancient Cilicia, between Nagidus and Celenderis.[1] William Smith conjectured it to be the same place as the Myanda or Mysanda mentioned by Pliny the Elder;[2] and if so, also identical with the town of Mandane (Μανδάνη) mentioned in Stadiasmus Maris Magni as between Celenderis and Cape Pisidium or Posidium (modern Kızıl Burun),[3] from which it was only 7 stadia distant.[4][5] Modern scholarship tentatively accepts the identity with Myanda/Mysanda but rejects that of Mandane.[6]

Myus is tentatively located near Yenikaş in Asiatic Turkey.[7][6]

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Mandane". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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