Calpe ( grc, Κάλπη, Kalpē), also Kalpas or Calpas, was a port city of ancient Bithynia in Asia Minor, on the shore of the Black Sea. It was located not far from the mouth of the river

Calpas Calpas or Kalpas, also known as Calpe or Kalpe ( grc, Κάλπη) was a river of ancient Bithynia draining into the Pontus Euxinus, between the Psilis, from which it is 210 stadia distant, and the Sangarius River. Near its mouth was the port of ...

(modern Ilaflı Dere). It was mentioned in Xenophon's '' Anabasis''. Xenophon, who passed through the place on his retreat with the Ten Thousand, describes it as about halfway between

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and Heraclea Pontica on a promontory, part which projects into the sea is an abrupt precipice. The neck which connects the promontory with the mainland is only wide. The port is under the rock to the west, and has a beach; and close to the sea there is a source of fresh water. The place is minutely described by Xenophon. The place is mentioned also by Pliny the Elder,

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, who places it 210 stadia from the mouth of the

Psilis The Psilis ( grc, Ψίλις) or Psillis (Ψίλλις) was a river of ancient Bithynia that drained to the Pontus Euxinus The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balka ...

, and

Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephan of Byzantium ( la, Stephanus Byzantinus; grc-gre, Στέφανος Βυζάντιος, ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD), was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethni ...

. Its site is located near Kerpe (or Kirpe) in Asiatic Turkey.

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