Historical place profile

Arisbe

Arisbe was an ancient city of the Troad, possibly to be identified with modern Musakoy in Turkey. It was a colony of Miletus, according to Anaximenes of Lampsacus.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:501359
Catalogue ID
pleiades:501359
Place type
settlement, settlement-modern
Coordinates
40.194290, 26.535763
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Arisbe was an ancient city of the Troad, possibly to be identified with modern Musakoy in Turkey. It was a colony of Miletus, according to Anaximenes of Lampsacus.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 51 H4 Arisbe

Source and reuse

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Research path

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