Alazia

Alazia (Ancient Greek: Ἀλαζία) was a city of ancient Troad near the River Odrysses, which flows out of Lake Dascylitis from the west through the plain of Mygdonia and empties into the Rhyndacus.[1] Demetrius of Scepsis calls the town Alazonia (Ἀλαζονία) and places it along with Argyria on the right bank of the Aesepus River near Scepsis.[2] The tribe associated with the town was called Alazones based on the writings of Hekataios, Menekrates, and Palaiphatos.[3] This tribe, which was also mentioned by Homer in the Iliad,[4] persisted after the city of Alazia was abandoned, living in villages along the Odrysses.[5][6] Strabo further clarifies its location as at the foot of Mount Ida near the source of the Aesepus.[7][8]

Its site is unlocated.
References

Hecataeus of Miletus, quoted in Strabo. Geographica. 12.3.22. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
Strabo. Geographica. 12.3.23. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
Strabo (1923). Strabo on the Troad: Book XIII, Cap. I. Cambridge: CUP Archive. p. 209.
Montesano, Marina (2018). Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 23. ISBN 9783319920771.
Amaseia, Strabo of (2016-02-13). Delphi Complete Works of Strabo - Geography (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. ISBN 9781786563682.
Nielsen, Thomas Heine (1997). Yet More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. p. 19. ISBN 3515072225.
Strabo. Geographica. xiii. p. 693. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
Gustav Hirschfeld: Alazia.(in German) In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Volume I,1, Stuttgart 1893, col. 1298.

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