Lasthenes (Thrace)

Lasthenes (Ancient Greek: Λασθένης) or Leosthenes (Λεωσθένης) or Leosthenion (Λεωσθένιον) or Leostheneion (Λεωσθένειον) or Sosthenion (Σωσθένιον) was a town of ancient Thrace, inhabited during Roman and Byzantine times. Pliny the Elder records the name as Casthenes, which is generally taken to be a corruption of Lasthenes or Leosthenes.

Its site is located near İstinye in European Turkey.

References

  1. 1 2 Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.
  2. ↑ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Bosporus Thracius
  3. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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