'''Myrcinus''' or '''Myrkinos''' ({{langx|grc|Μύρκινος}}<ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v.''}}</ref> or Μύρκιννος<ref>Tzetz. ''Chil.'' 3.96</ref>) was an ancient Greek city located in Macedonian Thrace, in the region of Edonis between the Strymon and the Nestos Rivers,<ref>von Bredow, Iris (Bietigheim-Bissingen), “Myrcinus”, in: Brill's New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 20 March 2018 <https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e814320></ref> on the left bank of the Strymon. It was within the territory of the Edonians, a Thracian tribe,<ref name=Poleis>{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 978-0-19-814099-3|page= 782}}</ref> and was founded as a polis by colonists from Miletus in 497 BCE.<ref>{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 978-0-19-814099-3|page= 1393}}</ref> The colonists were led by Histiaios<ref>The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Robert B. Strassler, 2009, page 913</ref> (already a Tyrant of Miletus), whom Darius had allowed to build a city in reward for his help. Its site offered great advantages to settlers, as it contained an abundant supply of timber for shipbuilding, as well as silver mines.<ref>{{Cite Herodotus|7.23}}</ref> Aristagoras retired to this place, and, soon after landing, perished before some Thracian town which he was besieging.<ref>{{Cite Herodotus|5.126}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Thucydides|4.102}}</ref> Afterwards, it had fallen into the hands of the Edoni; but on the murder of Pittacus, chief of that people, it surrendered to Brasidas<ref>{{Cite Thucydides|4.107}}</ref> after he captured Amphipolis, Oesyme and Galepsus in 422 BCE.<ref>{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 978-0-19-814099-3|page= 864}}</ref> During the Byzantine Empire it was known as '''Doxompos''' ({{lang|grc|Δοξόμπος}}) or '''Doxompus''' ({{lang|grc|Δοξόμπους}}).
Its site is near the modern village renamed Myrkinos in honour of the ancient town.<ref>{{Cite DARE|32366}}</ref><ref>{{Barrington Atlas|page=51}}</ref>
==See also== * Greek colonies in Thrace
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