Elaea ( el, Ελαία ''Elaíā'') was mentioned by
Pliny (''
Natural History'', v.32) as the ancient name of an island in the
Propontis
The Sea of Marmara,; grc, Προποντίς, Προποντίδα, Propontís, Propontída also known as the Marmara Sea, is an inland sea located entirely within the borders of Turkey. It connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea via the ...
(Sea of Marmara), in
Bithynia
Bithynia (; Koine Greek: , ''Bithynía'') was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea. It bordered Mysia to the southwest, Pa ...
. It was one of the
Demonisi group (Princes' Islands), but it is not certain which of the several small islands Pliny referred to.
References
*
Smith, William (editor),
Elaea, ''
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
The ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'' is the last in a series of classical dictionaries edited by the English scholar William Smith (1813–1893), following ''A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities'' and the ''Dictionary of Gr ...
'' (London: Walton and Maberly, Murray, 1854)
*
Hazlitt, William,
Elæa, ''The Classical Gazetteer'' (London: Whittaker, 1851)
Geography of Bithynia
Islands of the Sea of Marmara
Mythological islands
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