Διονυσόπολις

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Διονυσόπολις, -εως, ἡ
• Alolema(s): tb. Διονύσου πόλις St.Byz.
Dionisópolis
1 ciudad del Ponto Euxino (antes llamada Κρουνοί) actual Balchik (este de Bulgaria), Arr.Peripl.M.Eux.24.4, Scymn.751, 755, Peripl.M.Eux.77, 78, 79, Ptol.Geog.3.10.3, App.Ill.30, St.Byz.s.u. Διονύσου πόλις.
2 ciudad india tb. llamada Νάγαρα Ptol.Geog.7.1.43, cf. Διονύσου πόλις s.u. Διόνυσος B 4.

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1. Dionysupolis, a city in ancient Thrace, now in Bulgaria (a Black Sea coastal town named Balchik). Dionysupolis or Dionysoupolis or Dionysopolis or Dionysou polis (Ancient Greek: Διονύσου πόλις and Διονυσόπολις) was a town of ancient Thrace, later of Moesia, on the river Ziras. It was founded as a Thracian settlement in was founded in the 5th century BC, 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. It was renamed as Dionysopolis after the discovery of a statue of Dionysus in the sea. Later it became a Greek-Byzantine and Bulgarian fortress. The town also bore the name Matiopolis.
2. Dionysiopolis, a city in ancient Phrygia, now in Turkey. Dionysiopolis (Ancient Greek: Διονυσιόπολις, "city of Dionysus") or Dionysopolis (Διονύσου πόλις), was a city of Phrygia in Asia Minor. The demonym Dionysopolitae (Διονυσοπολίτης, Διονυσοπολῖται) occurs on coins, and in a letter of M. Cicero to his brother Quintus, in which he speaks of the people of Dionysopolis being very hostile to Quintus, which must have been for something that Quintus did during his praetorship of Asia. Pliny places the Dionysopolitae in the conventus of Apamea, which is all the ancient writers note of their position. We may infer from the coin that the place was on the Maeander, or near it. Stephanus of Byzantium says that it was founded by Attalus and Eumenes. Stephanus mentions another Dionysopolis in Pontus, originally called Cruni, and he quotes two verses of Scymnus about it; however, the town of Dionysupolis in Thrace but on the Pontus, rather than in Pontus could be meant.
3. Dionysopolis Indiae, a city in ancient India inter Gangem, now in Afghanistan. Nagara (Ancient Greek: Νάγαρα), also known as Dionysopolis (Διονυσόπολις), was an ancient city in the northwest part of India intra Gangem ("India within the Ganges"), distinguished in Ptolemy by the title ἡ καὶ Διονυσόπολις 'also Dionysopolis'. It also appears in sources as Nagarahara, and was situated between the Kabul River and the Indus, in present-day Afghanistan. The site of Nagara is usually associated with a large stupa called Nagara Ghundi, about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Jalalabad near Tepe Khwaja Lahori, south of the junction of the Surkhäb and Kabul rivers, where ancient ruins have been found.