Molyvoti/Stryme?
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.N. Borza
Creators: E.N. Borza
Contributors:
DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Mattia D’Acri, Jeffrey Becker, Zachary Rosalinsky, Tom Elliott, Catherine Bouras, G. Reger, R. Talbert
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Last modified
Mar 28, 2026 10:43 AM
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History
Stryme was colonized by Greeks from the island of Thasos in the Archaic period, but by at least the 4th century BCE it appears to have fallen under the political and economic power of Maroneia. Stryme is probably to be identified with an archaeological site on the Molyvoti peninsula, where recent investigation by the Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project has demonstrated that the settlement was destroyed in the mid-fourth century and briefly reoccupied ca. 325 BCE before abandonment in the early 3rd century. In the Late Roman and Byzantine periods, there were small farmsteads on the peninsula and a settlement on the headland.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/501628
40.936131235, 25.2849514177
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 14915 (550 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
- OSM Location after Bakalakes 1967 (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Στρύμη (Stryme: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
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- Χερσόνησος Μολυβωτής (Chersonisos Molivotis: Modern Greek, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Μολυβωτή (Molyvoti: Modern Greek, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
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- Stryme? (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Molyvoti/Stryme? part of (regional) Thracia (750 BC - 550 BC)
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settlement, archaeological site
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 51 E3 Stryme?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Cape Molyvote
E.N. Borza, DARMC, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Mattia D’Acri, Jeffrey Becker, Zachary Rosalinsky, Tom Elliott, Catherine Bouras, G. Reger, and R. Talbert, 'Molyvoti/Stryme?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/501628> [accessed: 11 October 2026]
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