Mysia

Mysia ( Μυσία, Mysia ) is the name of a historic landscape in the northwest of ancient Asia Minor. Mysia was never, neither scenic nor economically, administratively and politically, a unit.

In the north of Mysia adjacent to the Hellespont and Propontis, the; the east of the river Rhyndacus and the massif of Mount Olympus in Bithynia - mysisch ( Uludağ ) form the border against Bithynia. To the west of Aisepos forms towards the border to Troas, where the landscape is often reckoned still to Mysia. Furthermore, the Aegean Sea and the Gulf of Adramyttion form the western and southwestern border. The boundary to the south and southeast is more difficult to define, Mysia limited here to Phrygia, Lydia and the Aeolis.

It is named after the Thracian tribe of the Mysoí, probably in the 12th century BC came here. Their origin is not fully understood, but they are likely to be migrated as the Phryges of the lower Danube, probably from the area of ​​the later Moesia. The settlements of the Phryges and Mysoi in Asia Minor were the Assyrians may muski of the region, both strains were difficult to distinguish ( cf. Strabo, 12, 4, 4).

Contrast, however, Herodotus tells of a hostile array of Mysians and Teucri that " even before the Trojan war" crossed the Bosporus, all Thrace and the northern Greece surrendered and came to the Peneus.

The Greek authors (see Ptolemy 8, 11, 1) distinguished " Kleinmysien " by which the coastal region was meant by the major cities and " Großmysien ", which consisted primarily of the landlocked country.

Geography

The area is a wooded inland and mountain landscape.

The main mountain ranges are the Ida ( Kaz Dagi ) and the mysische Olympos ( Uludag ) with an altitude of 2542 m in the north and the Tymnos ( Demir Dagi ) in the south.

The main rivers Mysia, formerly navigable over long distances, are Rhyndacus ( Adırnaz Çayı ) Makestos ( Simav Çayı ) Tarsios, Aisepos ( Gonen Çayı ), the Granicus ( Biga Çayı ), in the Troad the Scamander and Caicos ( Bakırçay ). The landscape has a number of wholly or partially preserved Roman bridges: the Aesepus Bridge, the Makestosbrücke, the White Bridge ( Granicus ) and Konstantin bridge ( Rhyndacus ).

Ancient Cities in Mysia: Apollonia on Rhyndacus, Astyra, Cyzicus, Lampsacus, Myrina, Parium, Pergamon, Priapus

Mythology

In Greek mythology, the most important king of the Mysians Teuthras was: