Crithote (Thrace)

{{Short description|Ancient Greek city located in Thrace}} '''Crithote''' or '''Krithote''' ({{langx|grc|Κριθωτή or Κριθώτη}}) was an ancient Greek<ref name=poleis>{{cite book|author = Mogens Herman Hansen and Thomas Heine Nielsen|title=An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|place=New York|isbn=0-19-814099-1|chapter=Thracian Chersonese|pages = 907–908}}</ref> city located in Thrace, located in the region of the Thracian Chersonesos. It was on the Hellespont north of Gallipoli, and was an Athenian colony founded by Miltiades.<ref>{{cite book|author=William Hazlitt|title=Classical Gazetteer|year=1851|place=London|page=124}}</ref><ref>[https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/2417 Suda, kappa, 2417]</ref> It is cited in the ''Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax'' among the cities of the Thracian Chersonesos: Aegospotami, Cressa, Crithote, and Pactya.<ref>''Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax'', p. 67.</ref>

At the time of Strabo it was in ruins. The geographer places it between the cities of Callipolis and Pactya.<ref>Strabo VII, fragment 55.</ref> Pliny the Elder, for his part, says it was adjacent to the Propontis, where were also the cities of Tiristasis and Cissa.<ref>Pliny the Elder, ''Natural History'', IV, 18.</ref>

Isocrates highlights the excellent situation, from the strategic point of view, of the city, as a point of control of the Hellespont. Wherefore, the year 365 BCE, it was conquered, along with Sestos, by the Athenians under the command of Timotheus.<ref>Isocrates XV, 108; XV, 112.</ref>

Bronze coins minted by Crithote are preserved, dated between 350 BCE and 281 BCE, with the inscriptions ΚΡΙ, ΚΡΙΘΟ o ΚΡΙΘΟΥΣΙΩΝ.<ref name=poleis/>

Its site is located 2 miles (3 km) east of Gelibolu, in Çanakkale Province, Turkey.<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=51}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|32353}}</ref>

==See also== *Greek colonies in Thrace

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Category:Populated places in ancient Thrace Category:Former populated places in Turkey Category:Greek colonies in the Thracian Chersonese Category:Cities in ancient Greece Category:History of Çanakkale Province Category:Athenian colonies