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Lasthenes

İstanbul · Archaeological site

Catalogue label

Kind
Archaeological site
Province / district
Istanbul
Elevation
9 m
Wikidata
Q65051254

About

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.

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