Enez

Enez (in Greek old el Αίνος/ Aïnos ; in Latin Aenus ; in Turkish tr Enez ) is a small town located in Turkey.

Geography

Enez east is a small town located in the European part of the Turkey, close to the Aegean Sea and the border with the Greece. It is on on left bank of the Maritza, close to the mouth of this one, and it was formerly at the edge of the Aegean Sea. The city has today of a small river port and a seaport a little further.

History

The date of precise foundation of the city is not known with certainty. Various theses exist on this subject. The archaeological excavations revealed the presence of a human community with and OJ, evening at the time Chalcolithique.

The town of Aïnos is mentioned for the first time by Homère (Iliade IV, 520) as a Thrace city. In the same way, Strabon (VII, 8,319) wrote that the city bears the name of Poltyobria , according to Poltys, king of Thrace.

It is refondée by Greek colonists of etolic origin at seventh century BC, and appears sporadically in the traditional Greek sources. Its history and its topography remain nevertheless very badly known.

At the end of the city under domination of the Persian Empire at the time of the countryside of Darius Ier passes, into -513, against the Scythes. This domination does not last and the city finds its independence. In 480, the king of Perse Xerxes passed in Thrace by the Dardanelles, in direction of the Greece, and it occupied the small city. Having been a free city until this date, Aïnos joined the Ligue of Délos after the battle of Salamine (- 480). As a member of this league, Aïnos took part in the countryside of Sicily carried out by Athens into -415 (Thucydide IV, 28: VI, 57). The city found then once again its independence, for a short period, before it is conquered by the Royaume of Macedonia. Under authority of the Ptolémées after the dislocation of the empire of Alexandre Large the, the city became again independent when the Roman République conquered the Thrace into -190.

Once conquered by Rome, the city was reorganized on the model Roman and was re-elected Aenus . According to Procope de Césarée ( Buildings , IV, 11,1-5), the emperor Justinien did it refortifier because of his strategic position on the road of Greece of north towards Constantinople and not far from the entry of the Dardanelles. Synekdèmos of Hiéroklès mentions Aenus like capital of the Byzantine province of Rhodope, which included the islands of Samothrace and Imbros. It is also an episcopal see and, starting from 1032, a metropolis. During the Low Middle Ages, the city is dirigiée during two centuries by two family Génois are: Gattelusis and Dorias.

The city was conquered by the Othoman in 1456, at the time of Mehmed II the Conqueror, by Has Yunus Bey which besieged it by ground and sea.

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