Dionysupolis

Dionysupolis or Dionysoupolis or Dionysopolis (Ancient Greek: Διονύσου πόλις[1] and Διονυσόπολις[2]) was a town of ancient Thrace, later of Moesia, on the river Ziras. It was founded as a Thracian settlement, but was later colonised by the Ionian ancient Greeks and given the name Cruni or Krounoi (Κρουνοί). It was named Krounoi from the nearby founts of water.[3][1] It was renamed as Dionysopolis after the discovery of a statue of Dionysus in the sea.[4] Later it became a Greek-Byzantine and Bulgarian fortress. The town also bore the name Matiopolis.[5]

Its site is near the modern Balchik, Bulgaria.[6][7]

References

1. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, §D233.1
2. Arrian, Periplus of the Euxine Sea, §35
3. Pseudo Scymnus or Pausanias of Damascus, Circuit of the Earth, §748
4. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 932. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
5.  Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cruni". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
6. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 22, and directory notes accompanying.
7. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Cruni". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.