Stryme

'''Stryme''' ({{langx|grc|Στρύμη}}) was an ancient Greek<ref name=Poleis>{{cite book|author= Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen |title= An inventory of archaic and classical poleis|url= https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans |url-access= limited |year= 2004|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0-19-814099-1|chapter= Thrace from Nestos to Hebros |page= [https://archive.org/details/inventoryarchaic00hans/page/n896 880] }}</ref> city on the south coast of ancient Thrace, a little to the west of Mesembria, between which and Stryme flowed the small river Lissus, which the army of Xerxes I is said to have drunk dry.<ref>{{Cite Herodotus|7.108}}</ref> It was founded by colonists from Thasos; but disputes seem to have arisen respecting it between the Thasii and the people of the neighbouring city of Maroneia.<ref>Philip. ap. Demos. p. 163, R.</ref> In some sources, Stryme is called a Thasian polis bordering on Mesambria, but the account Herodotos provides is contradictory. Stryme was located in the Briantike, a region belonging to the Thracian Kikones.

The location of the site is disputed; but many scholars locate it on the Molyvoti Peninsula near Cape Molyvote about {{convert|25|km}} southwest of Komotini.<ref name=Barrington>{{Barrington Atlas|page=51}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|32406}}</ref> This site is being investigated by a synergasia between the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, represented by Princeton University, and the 19th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities (Komotini).

==See also== *Greek colonies in Thrace

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Category:Populated places in ancient Thrace Category:Former populated places in Greece Category:Thasian colonies Category:Ionian colonies in Thrace